Memory, identities and angolanity in Ana Paula Tavares

Abstract

This essay demonstrates the analysis of the angolan Ana Paula Tavares’s writings, including the chronicles in Um rio preso nas mãos (2019) and the six anthologies reunited in the book Amargos como os frutos (2011), presented in the order of their respective first editions: Ritos de passagem (1985), O lago da lua (1999), Dizes-me coisas amargas como os frutos (2001), Exvotos (2003), Manual para amantes desesperados (2007) e Como veias finas na terra (2010). The aim of the research is to identify the representational work that centralizes minority groups. The Angolan writer approaches the ancestrality and the otherness; this way, her writing provides the visibility and the identity construction of the Angolan nation in the post-independence context. In order to accomplish the bibliographic research proposed, the theoretical basis was about the memory (Pollak, Leda Martins and Ana Paula Tavares, in her thesis about history and memory); the literary criticism and literary theories (Alfredo Bosi, Cammarata, Iser, Genette, Margarida Ribeiro, Érica Antunes); the anthropological criticism by Alpha Sow and Ana Paula Tavares and the postcolonial criticism (Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Francisco Noa, Inocência Mata, Nazareth Fonseca, Abdala Junior, Mia Couto, among others).

[Received on: July 29, 2021 - Accepted on: October 30, 2021]