Vol. 26 No. 2 (2025): Angola - collection, memory, and literature
The sources of information in literature constitute significant references about what is registered in the form of a paper book or in the virtual world, making it possible to historicize, understand or even reinvent the literary object from them.
By contemplating a wide range of disciplines, which range from Genetic Criticism to Literary History, work with documentation in the literary field opens up numerous paths/disciplines that range from Genetic Criticism insofar as it allows the elaboration of a reading of the work not the based on the published product - the publication of the book -, but also on the writing processes, with their drafts and versions, favoring the subversion of notions such as progress, originality, or even the revision of biographies. Likewise, the study of literary collections and correspondence between authors and/or critics allows for the tracing of sociability networks in the literary field, as well as the paths of processes of creation and autobiographical expression.
A look at the area of African Literature, especially in Angolan literature, reveals that, despite these multiple paths of work, research based on primary sources has been scarce, certainly because there are few documents available to researchers, whether in because of historical adversities, or because the documents are in private hands. Making room for works that have managed to break through this limitation is the meaning of the dossier “Angola: collection, memory and literature”.
