Words: complaint to violence and identity ecos in NGA Fefa Kajinvunda, of Boaventura Cardoso

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/boitata.2014v9.e31623

Keywords:

Female voice, Exploration, Violence, Resistance, Subversion

Abstract

Portuguese colony, Angola was under the control of this capitalist company in the course of five hundred years. Independence took place in 1975. It is from this scenario that the work of tales Dizanga dia Muenhu, by Boaventura Cardoso, published in 1977. The writer was not willing to translate the book's title event that raises the hypothesis that it is up to the reader to investigate the term in quimbundo, group ethnolinguistic of the Bantu people, aesthetics of valuing the culture of African oral tradition. From the tales, we elected Nga Fefa Kajinvunda, in which the protagonist is made by the word. It is one of the countless women who trade in the outdoor market. The violence process is substantiated by authoritarianism of the male universe over the female and for the supremacy of the European vision at the expense of to the black person. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyze the forms of resistance of the character feminine, which is supported by the voice, the living discourse, to mirror the writing of Boaventura Cardoso, coping and the refusal to cancel. Thus, the voice is covered with signs. Representative of the community, it is forged in writing, a resource used to break the siege of invisibility imposed on Angolan society. In the literary plot, the compositional elements are interwoven with words from around the world Portuguese language, creating a writing that reflects the orality that, in addition to violence, exploitation, racism, functions as an identity humus.

Author Biography

Maria Aparecida de Barros, Universidade Estadual de Londrina - UEL

PhD student in Letters, Universidade Estadual de Londrina - UEL

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Published

2014-05-30

How to Cite

Barros, M. A. de. (2014). Words: complaint to violence and identity ecos in NGA Fefa Kajinvunda, of Boaventura Cardoso. Boitatá, 9(17), 131–145. https://doi.org/10.5433/boitata.2014v9.e31623

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