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SOROMENHO (Castro). HISTÓRIAS da Terra Negra: contos e novelas e uma narrativa. Lisboa. 1960. - SOROMENHO (Castro) HISTÓRIAS da Terra Negra: contos e novelas e uma narrativa . Estudo de Roger Bastide, ilustrações em extra-texto de Alice Jorge e Júlio Pomar. Lisboa: Editorial Gleba, 1960. 2 v.: il.; 260 mm. Stories from the Black Earth brings together in two volumes all of Castro Soromenho's published short stories, novellas, and narratives up to that point, including the texts of Samba , Calenga , Rajada , The Death of ”Chota” , The Sacred Tree , and others, as well as the narrative Lueji and Ilunga in the Land of Friendship . The first volume opens with a lengthy critical study by the French sociologist Roger Bastide, published simultaneously in French and in a translation by Mário de Andrade, which situates Soromenho's work within the best Portuguese prose of the mid-century and frames it within neo-realism. The illustrations in extra-text are by Alice Jorge and Júlio Pomar, and the vignettes by Salgado Dias. This work represents the culmination of a fictional narrative denouncing colonialism, rooted in direct knowledge of Angolan societies, particularly the people of Lunda, and constitutes an unavoidable reference point in African literatures written in Portuguese. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate