Angola and Mozambique (40 years): intellectuals and utopia in the African novel

Authors

  • Sueli da Silva Saraiva Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (UNILAB)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i27.98615

Keywords:

intellectual, African novel, utopia, Angola, Mozambique

Abstract

A spirit of utopia moved the anti-colonial war in African countries until the final victory in the seventies. But the painful reconstruction of the nation and its results on contemporaneity gave way to perplexity and dystopia, forcing intellectuals into a steady “recovery initiative” (Balandier). In these four decades of independence the generation of writers who witnessed the birth of the nation in Angola and Mozambique, also continued attentive to the social and historical hardships. Hence, the literary word still echoes as a resistance tool against old and new forms of oppression, and the novel is its preferential space for expression.

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Author Biography

  • Sueli da Silva Saraiva, Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (UNILAB)
    Professora efetiva  / Instituto de humanidades e Letras / disciplinas teoria da literatura; literaturas em língua portuguesa.Professora efetiva  / Instituto de humanidades e Letras / disciplinas teoria da literatura; literaturas em língua portuguesa.

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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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SARAIVA, Sueli da Silva. Angola and Mozambique (40 years): intellectuals and utopia in the African novel. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 16, n. 1, p. 251–263, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i27.98615. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/98615.. Acesso em: 28 jun. 2024.