Between fiction and reality
An investigation into the anticolonial message of the bantu religious practices in "Quicumbi Assanhada" by Arnaldo Santos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5053426 |
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| Authors | Vincenzo Cammarata (0000-0001-9920-7439, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 142-157 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista Diadorim (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1980-2552 • E-ISSN: 2675-1216 |
| Publisher | Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Letras Vernaculas - PPGLEV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.35520/diadorim.2020.v22n3a34989 |
| OpenAlex | W3122446801 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The aim of the present article is to investigate the linguistic strategies used by Arnaldo Santos to decolonise the Angolan literature through the spiritual discourse of Bantu derivation in the short story “Quicumbi assanhada”, initially contained in the collection titled Tempos do Munhungo (1968) and then included in Kinaxixe e outras prosas (1982). In the above story, by combining real-life events with elements coming from his imagination as a writer, Arnaldo Santos is able to compose a literary piece that depicts the simple life of the oppressed people from Luanda, hence sustaining an anti-colonial literature that subverts the order imposed by the Portuguese regime, before the birth of the Angolan country
Archaeology · Art · Bantu languages · Colonialism · Linguistics · Literature · Portuguese · Sociology · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Gender Studies · History · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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