Hope as retaliation or the wondrous world of Abdulai Sila’s literature

Authors

  • Sebastião Marques Cardoso Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i27.89765

Keywords:

literary theory, African literatures in Portuguese, postcolonial studies, Abdulai Sila

Abstract

This paper discusses the work of Abdulai Sila [1958-], and, more especifically, Dois tiros e uma gargalhada (2013), last publication by the author. We are going to investigate how two cultural systems of representation – the african and the western – aprehend history and how these systems interact in contemporary times. To this end, we will discuss the identities’ figuration of the main characters, as well as verify networks and alterity relations, spatiotemporal intersections and forms of identification with tradition. We suspect, then, that there is in the work of this author an understanding of history that recovers the african cultural magic in contrast to the inevitability of the conception of history posed by the west.

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Author Biography

  • Sebastião Marques Cardoso, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte
    Sebastião Marques Cardoso, pós-doutorado em Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP, Brasil), Doutorado em Teoria e História Literária pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, Brasil), Mestre em Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada pela Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP, Brasil). É professor universitário, pesquisador e crítico literário, autor de Poéticas da Mestiçagem: textos sobre culturas literárias e crítica cultural (Curitiba, CRV, 2014), Oswald de Andrade: anti-heroísmo, literatura e crítica (Curitiba, CRV, 2010), João do Rio: espaço, técnica e imaginação literária (Curitiba, CRV, 2011) e do ensaio “Horizontes da crítica literária brasileira contemporânea: Roberto Schwarz e Luiz Costa Lima” de Crítica Literária Contemporânea (VIOLA, Rio de Janeiro, Civilização Brasileira, 2013). No ano de 2009, foi Leitor brasileiro na Embaixada do Brasil em Guiné-Bissau, sob a missão do Embaixador Jorge Geraldo Kadri. Em Bissau, Sebastião Cardoso auxiliou, também, na docência e na administração da Universidade Amílcar Cabral/ Universidade Lusófona da Guiné como Assessor Científico. Trabalha, hoje, como professor Adjunto em Teoria da Literatura do Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras e como pesquisador permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, mestrado e doutorado, da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN, Brasil). CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7160975510328626

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Published

2015-06-21

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2015): Literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa e o pós-independência

Section

Dossiê 27: Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa e o Pós-Independência

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How to Cite

CARDOSO, Sebastião Marques. Hope as retaliation or the wondrous world of Abdulai Sila’s literature. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 16, n. 1, p. 233–249, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i27.89765. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/89765.. Acesso em: 29 apr. 2025.