{"id":18330,"date":"2026-06-19T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/?post_type=people&#038;p=18330"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:29:53","slug":"renata-diaz-szmidt","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/en\/people\/renata-diaz-szmidt\/","title":{"rendered":"Renata D\u00edaz-Szmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A literary scholar based at the Institute of Romance Studies at Jagiellonian University. She specializes in African literature written in Portuguese, particularly from Angola and Mozambique, as well as Spanish-language literature from Equatorial Guinea, which she analyses from the perspective of post-, de-, and transcolonial theory. In addition, she conducts research in the fields of Indigenous and gender studies, with a particular focus on African Black feminism. Her other interests include Afrocentrism and the Indigenous Humanities. She is the author of the following books: <em>Muthiana orera, onroa vayi? <\/em><em>Dok\u0105d idziesz, pi\u0119kna kobieto? Przemiany to\u017csamo\u015bci kobiecej w powie\u015bciach mozambijskiej pisarki Pauliny Chiziane<\/em> (2010) and <em>Gdzie jeste\u015b, Gwineo? Pr\u00f3by kszta\u0142towania to\u017csamo\u015bci narodowej w tw\u00f3rczo\u015bci pisarzy z Gwinei R\u00f3wnikowej<\/em> (2017). She is also a co-author and co-editor of several books devoted to African literatures written in European languages: <em>Kalejdoskop afryka\u0144ski. <\/em><em>Problematyka to\u017csamo\u015bci w literaturze Afryki na prze\u0142omie XX i XXI wieku<\/em> (2012); <em>Wsp\u00f3\u0142czesne afryka\u0144skie literatury i inne teksty kultury w \u015bwietle postkolonialnych bada\u0144<\/em> (2015); and <em>Intelektuali\u015bci afryka\u0144scy w obliczu dyktatury<\/em> (2018). 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