Racial discrimination and national (re)construction in Mozambique: O alegre canto da perdiz, by Paulina Chiziane
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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i27.96816Keywords:
Mozambican literature, racism, national identity, Paulina ChizianeAbstract
In this essay, we analyzed the effects of colonial racial discrimination in Mozambique and its consequences in the post-independence era, in O alegre canto da perdiz (2008), by Paulina Chiziane. The analysis is based on the “semantic spaces” of Jurij Lotman and the “chronotopes” of Mikhail Bakhtin. Thus, it is identified a mythical space, a historical space (colonial and post-colonial) and a space of imagined future. Afterwards it is questioned the role of these spaces for the construction of a national identity.Downloads
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