Xithokozelo, an African Oral Tradition: Interview with Alvim Cossa (Mozanbique)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53930/348529

Keywords:

Xithokozelo, African Oral Tradition, Performance, Theatre of the Oppressed

Abstract

Interview with the Mozambican artist, Alvim Cossa (1968-) about the oral tradition Xithokozelo. The interview took place remotely and took place between January and February 2021, and is part of the post-doctoral research “Performances in Portuguese Speaking”, initiated at the Portugiesisch-Brasilianisches Institut of the Universität zu Köln, Germany.

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Author Biography

Miriane Peregrino, PhD in Languages - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

PhD in Languages from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil) with a sandwich doctorate from CAPES/BR at the Agostinho Neto University (UAN, Angola). In 2018, worked in the cultural centers of Brazil in Angola and Mozambique promoting actions of the reading incentive project, “Literatura Comunica”, awarded with the Todos Por Um Brasil de Leitores Prize (2015) and the Popular Cultures Prize (2018), both from the Ministry of Culture. Between 2019 and 2020 she was a research assistant at the Romanisches Seminar at Universität Mannheim (UNI-Mannheim, Germany) and is currently doing a research internship at the Portugiesisch-Brasilianisches Institut at Universität zu Köln (Uni-Köln, Germany). As a journalist she has reported on marginal and peripheral literature, community museums, migration, tourism and gentrification for websites and magazines such as RioOnWatch, Contemporary And América Latina, among others.

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Published

2021-11-17

How to Cite

Peregrino, M. (2021). Xithokozelo, an African Oral Tradition: Interview with Alvim Cossa (Mozanbique). Diálogos, 6, 305–315. https://doi.org/10.53930/348529