Between fiction and history: the narrator of ‘Rainhas da noite'
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https://doi.org/10.35520/mulemba.2018.v10n18a15355Keywords:
Narrator, Mozambican novel, João Paulo Borges Coelho.Abstract
The main objective of this reflection is to problematize the figure of the narrator of the novel Rainhas da noite, 2013, by the Mozambican fiction writer João Paulo Borges Coelho. Based on the analysis of the specificity of the narrative structure of this novel, consisting of two narrative lines, one in colonial Mozambique and the other in contemporary Mozambique, this text will point out some aspects of the relation of the contemporary narrator of the novel to the historical and social environment that surrounds him. A narrator that is in an ambivalent attitude towards his analytical subject: on the one hand, stimulated by the possibility of historical investigation, on the other, in conflict with the social and political environment of contemporary Mozambique.
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