O tema do trauma em Comissão das Lágrimas de António Lobo Antunes e Estação das Chuvas de José Eduardo Agualusa
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 (Comissão das Lágrimas, 2011) and a novel by José Eduardo Agualusa (Estação das Chuvas, 1995). The two novels focus on the Angolan post-independ...
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| 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 (Comissão das Lágrimas, 2011) and a novel by José Eduardo Agualusa (Estação das Chuvas, 1995). The two novels focus on the Angolan post-independence period, pointing out the problems of power 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 dystopic view, emotional stress and trauma which could not be expressed in a supposedly objective and factual discourse. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a3d4afc93764507a74f3cf36d94760f2023-08-17T12:32:08ZcatMasaryk UniversityÉtudes romanes de Brno1803-73992336-44162015-02-01352O tema do trauma em Comissão das Lágrimas de António Lobo Antunes e Estação das Chuvas de José Eduardo AgualusaSilvie ŠpánkováThe 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 (Comissão das Lágrimas, 2011) and a novel by José Eduardo Agualusa (Estação das Chuvas, 1995). The two novels focus on the Angolan post-independence period, pointing out the problems of power 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 dystopic view, emotional stress and trauma which could not be expressed in a supposedly objective and factual discourse.https://journals.phil.muni.cz/erb/article/view/26227Portuguese novelAngolan novelhistory and fictionpost-colonialismviolence and trauma |
| spellingShingle | Silvie Špánková O tema do trauma em Comissão das Lágrimas de António Lobo Antunes e Estação das Chuvas de José Eduardo Agualusa Études romanes de Brno Portuguese novel Angolan novel history and fiction post-colonialism violence and trauma |
| title | O tema do trauma em Comissão das Lágrimas de António Lobo Antunes e Estação das Chuvas de José Eduardo Agualusa |
| title_full | O tema do trauma em Comissão das Lágrimas de António Lobo Antunes e Estação das Chuvas de José Eduardo Agualusa |
| title_fullStr | O tema do trauma em Comissão das Lágrimas de António Lobo Antunes e Estação das Chuvas de José Eduardo Agualusa |
| title_full_unstemmed | O tema do trauma em Comissão das Lágrimas de António Lobo Antunes e Estação das Chuvas de José Eduardo Agualusa |
| title_short | O tema do trauma em Comissão das Lágrimas de António Lobo Antunes e Estação das Chuvas de José Eduardo Agualusa |
| title_sort | o tema do trauma em comissao das lagrimas de antonio lobo antunes e estacao das chuvas de jose eduardo agualusa |
| topic | Portuguese novel Angolan novel history and fiction post-colonialism violence and trauma |
| url | https://journals.phil.muni.cz/erb/article/view/26227 |
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