Publication details
O tema do trauma em Comissao das Lágrimas de António Lobo Antunes e Estacao das Chuvas de José Eduardo Agualusa
| Title in English | Trauma in Comissao das Lagrimas by António Lobo Antunes and in Estacao das Chuvas by José Eduardo Agualusa |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Études Romanes de Brno |
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| Web | Digitální knihovna FF MU |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Portuguese novel; Angolan novel; violence and trauma; post-colonialism; history and fiction |
| Description | The aim of this essay is to compare two novels which could be, due to their thematic and ideology, considered postcolonial: a novel by António Lobo Antunes (Comissao das Lágrimas, 2011) and a novel by José Eduardo Agualusa (Estacao das Chuvas, 1995). The two novels focus on the Angolan post-independence period, pointing out the problems of power, violence and identity. Based on a relation between history and fiction (H. White, L. Doležel etc.), our text pretends to show how the literary representation reflects, in a distopic view, emotional stress and trauma which could not be expressed in a supposedly objective and factual discourse. |
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