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A Body to Make Luanda: The Black Woman from the Countryside in Angolan Literature

Author(s) -

Júlia Garraio

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of lusophone studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1

H-Index - 2

ISSN - 2469-4800

DOI - 10.21471/jls.v1i1.36

Subject(s) - gender studies , rural area , key (lock) , identity (music) , geography , sociology , history , humanities , art , political science , aesthetics , ecology , law , biology

This article examines how the image of the black woman from the countryside who moves to Luanda was developed at three key moments in Angolan literature as a means of constructing national identity. The analysis focuses on Nga Muturi (1882), by Alfredo Troni ; “Linda,” a short story from A Casa da Maezinha , by Antonio Cardoso; and “Martinha,” a short story from Momento de Ilusao (2000), by Fragata de Morais.

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