The war as a subject and the written word as a weapon: the dreamy youth of Pepetela’s A Geração da Utopia

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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i26.82603

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Literature, Colonial War, Angola, Pepetela

Abstract

This article discusses how the Angolan youth of the 60s prepared for the war that led to the liberation of Angola. Two elements that guides the text are the war as an historical event, which governs the narrative and the function of literature during this period.

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  • Glaucia Regina Fernandes, Universidade de São Paulo
    Mestranda do Programa de Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa da USP.
  • Fabiana Carelli, Universidade de São Paulo
    Docente-pesquisadora do Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa da Universidade de São Paulo. Doutora em Letras - Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada pela Universidade de São Paulo. Mestre em Letras - Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada pela Universidade de São Paulo. Pós-Doutora em Portuguese Studies - Lusophone African Cinema pela University of Maryland, USA. Coordenadora do GENAM - Grupo de Estudos em Narrativa e Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. Diretora do Centro de Estudos de Literaturas e Culturas de Língua Portuguesa - CELP-USP.

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2014-11-04

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2014): Literatura, cultura e juventude

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FERNANDES, Glaucia Regina; CARELLI, Fabiana. The war as a subject and the written word as a weapon: the dreamy youth of Pepetela’s A Geração da Utopia. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 15, n. 2, p. 275–286, 2014. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i26.82603. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/82603.. Acesso em: 2 jun. 2024.