With reference to the five articles in the special issue, this introduction reflects on the relative absence of Lusophone African literature from the mainstream of African literary studies. Because of the insular and backward nature of Portugal’s colonialism, the protracted wars in Angola and Mozambique, and the sheer magnitude of the postcolony of Brazil as a center for the reception of Lusophone writing, this literature has followed a path of its own. However, although a fair amount of scholarly attention has been paid to the early anticolonial and nationalist generations of writers, this special issue updates the account of the Luso-African literary world by looking also at current developments in publishing (locally and abroad) and reception, especially in Brazil.

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葡非文学世界：引言

本导言结合特刊中的五篇文章，反映了葡语非洲文学在非洲文学研究主流中的相对缺位。由于葡萄牙殖民主义的封闭性和落后性、安哥拉和莫桑比克的旷日持久的战争，以及巴西作为葡语文字接收中心的后殖民地的巨大规模，这种文学走上了自己的道路。然而，尽管学术界对早期反殖民主义和民族主义时期的作家给予了相当多的关注，但本期特刊通过审视出版（本地和国外）和接受方面的当前发展，更新了对葡非文学界的描述，尤其是在巴西。