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0198885903 rar Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: the Case of Antnio Quadros is the first monograph on the literary works of the pennames of Portuguese poet and painter Antnio Quadros (1933-1994). The book uses Quadros's quirky case a Portuguese man who lived in colonial and post-independence Mozambique, where he published poetry and prose under three pennames Joo Pedro Grabato Dias, Frey Ioannes Garabatus, and Mutimati Barnab Jooto to examine the question of what it means to be an author in Mozambique and how authorship changed after the end of Portuguese colonial rule. Quadros's engagement with the question of the authors' place and function in authoritarian contexts stands as a fruitful counterpoint to the influential essays by Roland Barthes ('The Death of the Author', 1968) and Michel Foucault ('What is an Author?', 1969), the publication of which coincided with Quadros's literary dbut in 1968. Quadros's interesting and useful contributions to the question of Mozambican authorship are analysed in historical context and read alongside postcolonial and decolonial theory. Tom Stennett address the political implications of Barthes's and Foucault's erasure of authorial identity and their respective challenges to authorial authority. He makes the case for an approach to the question of authorship that takes into account the anonymous agents and institutions such as editors, political parties and the State that are involved in the conferring of authority onto certain authors and readers. In contrast to much extant scholarship on Mozambican authorship, which has tended to focus on questions related to identity and canonicity,