González Doval, Helena2023-08-252023-08-252023Doval, H. (2023). The Eurocentric Constant: An Approach to the Study of Mozambican Literature. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 10(2), 198-216. doi:10.1017/pli.2023.62052-2614http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30958The study of Mozambican literature is present at various latitudes within the academic world. There are, however, different outlooks and interests that must be analyzed if we want to account for the epistemologies present when facing a postcolonial reality such as Mozambique. On the understanding that literary texts are codified cultural information and that academics function as legitimators of discourses, this article offers an analysis of a corpus of academic publications on Mozambican literature published between 1975 and 2018. It posits thereby the possible existence of a Eurocentric constant within academic knowledge production and proposes some paths of action that may be of relevant pedagogical and self-reflective potentiality to the investigative exercise itselfeng© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Mozambican literatureEpistemologyAcademyjournal article10.1017/pli.2023.62052-2622open access