Creole nation and creole narrative: discourse merges in the construction of a complex portrait of slavery
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https://doi.org/10.35520/mulemba.2016.v8n14a4322Keywords:
Nação crioula, intertextuality, history, creolisationAbstract
We analyzed in the novel Nação crioula: a correspondência secreta de Fradique Mendes (2011), by José Eduardo Agualusa, the relation between historical and fictional discourses highlighting how the novel dialogues intertextually with Eça de Queirós's creation through the protagonist figure and how it recalls the slave trade practiced by the triad Portugal, Africa and Brazil. The combination of these discourses results in a kind of text that we define as “creole”, according to the definition of the theorist Édouard Glissant.
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2016-06-28
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