A sociological reading of the story ‘Mestre’ Tamoda

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2011v8.e25660

Keywords:

African literature, Culture, Colonization

Abstract

Our work intends to analyze the short story "'Mestre' Tamoda" by Uanhenga Xitu, in which the actions take place in a small African village. Through these actions, we try to show some signs of textual statement, which reveal the interference of some social cultural aspects of the space referred to in. We have pointed out some linguistic aspects, in order to show that the text points the overlap of a prevalent culture on a dominated one. To do this, the theoretical referential created by mikhail Bakhtin fits as our fundamental terminology properly.

Author Biography

Valda Suely da Silva Verri, Secretaria de Estado da Educação do Paraná

PhD in Literature from the State Universidade Estadual de Londrina - UEL

References

BAKHTIN, Mikhail. Marxismo e filosofia da linguagem. Tradução: Michel Lahud; Yara Frateschi Vieira. São Paulo: Hucitec, 2004.

BONNICI, Thomas. O pós-colonialismo e a literatura: estratégias de leitura. Maringá: Eduem, 2000.

CANDIDO, Antônio. A literatura e a formação do homem. Ciência e cultura, v. 24, p. 803-809, 1972.

MEMMI, Albert. Retrato do colonizado precedido pelo retrato o colonizador. 3. ed. Tradução: Roland Corbisier e Mariza Pinto Coelho. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1977.

XITU, Uanhenga. Mestre: Tamoda & Kahitu. São Paulo: Ática, 1984.

Published

2011-02-22

How to Cite

Verri, V. S. da S. (2011). A sociological reading of the story ‘Mestre’ Tamoda. Estação Literária, 8(1Supl.), 34–41. https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2011v8.e25660

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Section

Artigos do Dossiê Temático