Escrita, poder e utopia em pepetela writing, power. Information about the openaccess article the end of colonialism in angola and the weaving of the narrativenation, under pepetelas view in doaj. A portuguese angolan, pepetela was born in benguela, portuguese angola, and fought as a member of the mpla in the long guerrilla war for angolas independence. Pepetela the return of the water spirit 1995 trans. Our objective is not only try to understand how the different voices dialogically composed contribute to make the content andor meanings of the work apprehended, but also the. The story takes place in mayombe one the largest forest in africa, and it explains how a group of soldiers from different tribes with different problems unite themselves to fight for the independence of angola the nationstate. The book first received widespread attention when wolfers translation was published in heinemanns african writers series in 1983. Tornar o texto negrito ou italico, alterar o tamanho.
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. A white angolan, pepetela fought as a member of the mpla in the long guerrilla war for angolas independence. This book must be at a top five off all books i ever opened. Santes, fought in cabinda province with the mpla forces that he portrays. Pepetela artur carlos mauricio pestana dos santos nasceu em benguela, angola, em 1941. Pepetela and the new angolan mythology blac foundation. The history and the memory as resource are the most repeated leitmotive of the novels of. Pdf from a few novels of pepetela, we approach the subject of the. This book is a tragedy, romance, fiction and historic.
From a few novels of pepetela, we approach the subject of the relationship between literature and history. Divulgar o trabalho literario do grande escritor lusofono artur pestana dos santos pepetela. Pepetela, whose own literary trajectory dates from the 1960s to the present. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. Artur carlos mauricio pestana dos santos is a major angolan writer of fiction. Pepetela e o pseudonimo do escritor angolano artur carlos mauricio pestana dos santos. The ambivalence as to who are the heroes and who the villains of angolas past and future remains to the novels end. Read predadores by artur pestana available from rakuten kobo. Much of his writing deals with angolas political history in the 20th century. This is significant due to the fact that, in the last decades, many of.
He completed his primary and secondary studies in benguela and lubango. He writes under the name pepetela a portuguese angolan, pepetela was born in benguela, portuguese angola, and fought as a member of the mpla in the long guerrilla war for angolas independence. The writing wasnt good, the story itself is quite boring and overly vulgar, but the. Interviews with writers from angola and mozambique. Angolas bestknown writer, pepetela, is closely identified with this quest. The present study aims at investigating the polyphonic discourse played out in the novel yaka by the angolan writer, pepetela, through the observation of the way which the narrators discourses are constructed. Pepetelas novel is a fascinating study of the tensions produced by racism. Lueji, o nascimento dum imprio 1990 a gerao da utopia 1992 2. Pepetela and the new angolan mythology 8 1 yakasambiguous facial features had led family observers to identify her as both a parody of europeans and a symbol of atavistic forces. Frequentou o ensino superior em lisboa mas acabou por.
The present work aims to show that all this process of rebuilding the past, through fiction, has to do, among other things, with the transcodification of the historiographic context that the moment it goes through the fiction writer s ink or, if we prefer, goes through the literary text screen it. The history and the memory as resource are the most repeated leitmotive of the novels of this angolan writer. Pepetela has also written about angolas earlier history in a gloriosa familia and lueji, and has expanded into. Mayombe, 1983, pepetela, 094993268x, 9780949932686. O regresso deste apreciado escritor angolano, com um retrato do novoriquismo. Baptism of clay or yaka, a polyphonic novel scielo. Biblioteca nacional catalogao na publicao pepetela, pseud.
Artur carlos mauricio pestana dos santos born 1941 is a major angolan writer of fiction. The historys fictionality became the way of writing. Pepetela became the guerrilla codename, and later the penname, of artur pestana, a. Angola summary this article aims to outline a dialogue between history and fiction in.
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