Angola, a nation in pieces in José Eduardo Agualusa’s Estação das chuvas

Raquel Ribeiro

doi:10.21471/jls.v1i1.43

Angola, a nation in pieces in José Eduardo Agualusa’s Estação das chuvas

Raquel Ribeiro

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

In this article, I examine José Eduardo Agualusa’s Estação das chuvas (1996), as a novel that lays bare the contradictions of the MPLA’s revolutionary process after Angola’s independence. I begin with a discussion of the proximity between trauma and (the impossibility) of fiction. I then consider the challenges Angolan writers face in presenting an alternative discourse to the "one-party, one-people, one-nation" narrative propagated by the MPLA). Finally, I discuss how Estação das chuvas, which complicates both truth/verisimilitud and history/fiction, presents an alternative vision of Angola’s national narrative.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	57-72
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Lusophone Studies
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v1i1.43
Publication status	Published - 28 Jun 2016

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Angola
lusophone africa
agualusa
sousa jamba
civil war
Postcolonial literature

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1 Chapter
1 Other contribution

Cuba e Angola à procura dos seus heróis
Translated title of the contribution: Cuba and Angola looking for their heroesRibeiro, R., 10 Mar 2017, 6 p. Publico newspaper.
Research output: Other contribution
A contrapuntal reading of three testimonies of the Angolan civil war from Cuba, Portugal and Angola
Ribeiro, R., 2013, Post-Conflict Reconstructions: Re-Mappings and Reconciliations. Goncalves Miranda, R. & Zullo, F. (eds.). Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, p. 125-151 27 p. (Studies in Post-conflict Cultures; vol. 8).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

1 Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
1 External Examiner or Assessor

Talk on Muxima, by Alfredo Jaar
Ribeiro, R. (Invited speaker)
24 Feb 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Fiction as History? Resistance, Complicities and the Intellectual History of Postcolonial Angola
Ribeiro, R. (Examiner)
11 Jan 2018
Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor

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Angola, a nation in pieces in José Eduardo Agualusa’s Estação das chuvas

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Research output

Cuba e Angola à procura dos seus heróis

A contrapuntal reading of three testimonies of the Angolan civil war from Cuba, Portugal and Angola

Activities

Talk on Muxima, by Alfredo Jaar

Fiction as History? Resistance, Complicities and the Intellectual History of Postcolonial Angola

Cite this