Cities of the Lusophone World addresses diverse literary and cultural
representations of urban settings produced in the period from the 1960s
to the present day and originating from the Island of Mozambique,
Lisbon, Luanda, Macau, Maputo, Porto Alegre and São Paulo. The volume
contributes to the interdisciplinary research field of urban cultural
studies, which lies at the crossroads between the social sciences and
the humanities. The essays gathered here consider the city not only as a
geographical configuration, but also as a historical discourse where
space and time merge and where different individual and collective
practices and actions take place. They explore how memories and
identities are framed, how people at the margins create discourses of
resistance, and how processes of migration and urban transformation
disrupt established social and cultural borders.