Virgem Margarida: from Sublime to Tragic
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https://doi.org/10.35520/mulemba.2017.v9n17a14603Keywords:
Mozambique's history, reason, women, binarisms.Abstract
The proposal of this article is interdisciplinary for it aggregates conceptual views that refer to the anthropological binarisms, to the construction of the narrative plot and to the history of the African people, in the analysis of the flm Virgem Margarida by Licínio Azevedo. It is about the drama concerning a contingent of women imprisoned by a group of rulers and their allies, whose nation project is based on a conception of reason that overrides Mozambican popular myths and beliefs. In addition to narrating a fact very close to what happened in Mozambique's independence process, the flm focuses mainly on human suffering, connivance and hatred that jump from the sublime to the tragic, from the comic to the exalted between the women and their tormentors during the confnement in a large group
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2017-12-21
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