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The drowning of time : ecological catastrophe, dialectics, and allegorical realism in João Paulo Borges Coelho's 'Ponta Gea' and 'Água: uma novela rural'
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de Medeiros, Paulo (2020) The drowning of time : ecological catastrophe, dialectics, and allegorical realism in João Paulo Borges Coelho's 'Ponta Gea' and 'Água: uma novela rural'. In: Brugioni, Elena and Grossegesse, Orlando and de Medeiros, Paulo, (eds.) A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho : Rewriting the (Post)Colonial Remains. Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World . Witney : Peter Lang, pp. 219-247. ISBN 9781787079861
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Abstract
João Paulo Borges Coelho’s latest novel, Ponta Gea (2017), is an intense process of working through memory that starts by positing memory itself as water. Água: Uma novela rural
[Water: A Rural Tale] (2016) is a prolonged reflection on the contradictions of Mozambican society as it undergoes rapid and drastic changes related both to modernity and to climate change. The two texts draw on some of the author’s established preoccupations, themes and images, focused on the crucial function of water. Not only in terms of their content, but also due to their formal experimentations, the novels constitute daring interventions in Mozambican and Lusophone literature. This chapter discusses the novels in terms of their engagement with ecological issues, dialectics, memory, and technology. It also analyses the novels’ formal aspects, from the question of (magical) realism to the various processes of allegorizing deployed.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Coelho, Joäao Paulo Borges -- Criticism and interpretation | ||||
Series Name: | Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World | ||||
Publisher: | Peter Lang | ||||
Place of Publication: | Witney | ||||
ISBN: | 9781787079861 | ||||
Book Title: | A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho : Rewriting the (Post)Colonial Remains | ||||
Editor: | Brugioni, Elena and Grossegesse, Orlando and de Medeiros, Paulo | ||||
Official Date: | 24 March 2020 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 263 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 219-247 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Accepted Manuscript that has been published in A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho edited by Brugioni, Elena and Grossegesse, Orlando and de Medeiros, Paulo in the series Re-Congiguring Identies in the Portuguese-Speaking World. The original work can be found at:https://doi.org/10.3726/b11790 © Peter Lang AG 2020 All rights reserved | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 January 2020 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 March 2021 | ||||
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