Nzinga Mbandi: from story to myth
The figure of Queen Nzinga Mbandi continues to be appreciated in fictional and/or historical narratives as a myth of postcolonial Angolan identity, allowing a continuous approach as to what concerns the modes of cultural representation. In this article, the works of Manuel Pedro Pacavira, Nzinga Mba...
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| author | Orquídea Moreira Ribeiro Fernando Alberto Torres Moreira Susana Pimenta |
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| description | The figure of Queen Nzinga Mbandi continues to be appreciated in fictional and/or historical narratives as a myth of postcolonial Angolan identity, allowing a continuous approach as to what concerns the modes of cultural representation. In this article, the works of Manuel Pedro Pacavira, Nzinga Mbandi (1975), Pepetela, A gloriosa família: o tempo dos flamengos (1997) and José Eduardo Agualusa, A Rainha Ginga e de como os africanos inventaram o mundo (2014) will be analyzed, as these authors, in different moments of the recent Angolan history, look at this emblematic figure, drawing on historical information produced by Cavazzi, Cadornega or Jean Louis Castilhon, among others. The works now in analysis reiterate the mythical figure of resistance to the European invaders, which was Nzinga Mbandi, or a strong orientation towards the nationalist exaltation supported by it, an evident strategy which, by the rescue of figures and cultural practices, is defined as a means to affirm negritude. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f867d1f8e3ad48fe97c5b8e70f517a8a2022-12-21T22:39:30ZengUniversidade Católica PortuguesaJournal of Science and Technology of the Arts1646-97982183-00882019-01-0111110.7559/citarj.v11i1.594Nzinga Mbandi: from story to mythOrquídea Moreira RibeiroFernando Alberto Torres MoreiraSusana PimentaThe figure of Queen Nzinga Mbandi continues to be appreciated in fictional and/or historical narratives as a myth of postcolonial Angolan identity, allowing a continuous approach as to what concerns the modes of cultural representation. In this article, the works of Manuel Pedro Pacavira, Nzinga Mbandi (1975), Pepetela, A gloriosa família: o tempo dos flamengos (1997) and José Eduardo Agualusa, A Rainha Ginga e de como os africanos inventaram o mundo (2014) will be analyzed, as these authors, in different moments of the recent Angolan history, look at this emblematic figure, drawing on historical information produced by Cavazzi, Cadornega or Jean Louis Castilhon, among others. The works now in analysis reiterate the mythical figure of resistance to the European invaders, which was Nzinga Mbandi, or a strong orientation towards the nationalist exaltation supported by it, an evident strategy which, by the rescue of figures and cultural practices, is defined as a means to affirm negritude.https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/article/view/7325NzingaMemoryIdentityPepetelaPacaviraAgualusa |
| spellingShingle | Orquídea Moreira Ribeiro Fernando Alberto Torres Moreira Susana Pimenta Nzinga Mbandi: from story to myth Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts Nzinga Memory Identity Pepetela Pacavira Agualusa |
| title | Nzinga Mbandi: from story to myth |
| title_full | Nzinga Mbandi: from story to myth |
| title_fullStr | Nzinga Mbandi: from story to myth |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nzinga Mbandi: from story to myth |
| title_short | Nzinga Mbandi: from story to myth |
| title_sort | nzinga mbandi from story to myth |
| topic | Nzinga Memory Identity Pepetela Pacavira Agualusa |
| url | https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/article/view/7325 |
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