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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA)
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Lusophone Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://jls.apsa.us/index.php/jls/article/view/43 |
| Summary: | 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 the challenges Angolan writers face in presenting an alternative discourse to the "one-party, one-people, one-nation" narrative propagated by the MPLA). Finally, I discuss how Estação das chuvas, which complicates both truth/verisimilitud and history/fiction, presents an alternative vision of Angola’s national narrative. |
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| ISSN: | 2469-4800 |