Crianimalça: representations of children-animal relationships
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2022v42p125-136Keywords:
childhood studies, literary animal studies, Angolan literature, Mozambican literatureAbstract
This essay offers a comparative reading of the following fictional narratives, namely: Luís Bernardo Honwana’s “Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso” and Manuel Rui’s Quem dera me ser onda. These literary narratives, whose main characters are children and nonhuman animals, speak to conditions of vulnerability while correlating the resistance of the nonhuman animals with the children’s acts of insurrection. Situating the complex status of children within the humanist model (anthropocentric and focused on the adult human) and dialoguing with literary animal studies, this essay proposes to revisit the aforementioned works by utilizing a factual and non-allegorical interpretation of the children and the nonhuman animals. By decentralizing the adult human, the objective of this essay is to examine how the interspecies relationship of affection that children develop to nonhuman animals can contribute more comprehensively to anti-anthropocentric discussions about the complex and multidimensional relation between humans and non-humans
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