Angola, a Nation in Pieces in José Eduardo Agualusa’s <em>Estação das chuvas</em>

In this article, I examine José Eduardo Agualusa’s Estação das chuvas (1996), as a novel that lays bare the contradictions of the MPLA’s revolutionary process after Angola’s independence. I begin with a discussion of the proximity between trauma and (the impossibility) of fiction. I then consider th...

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Main Author: Raquel Ribeiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) 2016-06-01
Series:Journal of Lusophone Studies
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Online Access:https://jls.apsa.us/index.php/jls/article/view/43