Name: CIBELE VERRANGIA CORRÊA DA SILVA
Publication date: 27/04/2018
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ADELIA MARIA MIGLIEVICH RIBEIRO | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ADELIA MARIA MIGLIEVICH RIBEIRO | Advisor * |
| JÚLIA MARIA COSTA DE ALMEIDA | Internal Alternate * |
| LUÍS EUSTÁQUIO SOARES | Internal Examiner * |
| WILBERTH CLAYTHON FERREIRA SALGUEIRO | Internal Alternate * |
Summary: SILVA, Cibele Verrangia Correa da. The melancholy of resistance as identity: a study
about Mayombe and A Geração da Utopia by Pepetela. Doctoral Thesis. Universidade
Federal do Espírito Santo UFES, Vitória, 2018.
This thesis analyzes two pieces of modern Angolan literature: Mayombe (1980) and A
Geração da Utopia (1992), by Angolan writer Pepetela. We seek to develop an analytical
and comparative study between the aesthetic and structural elements of both works,
focusing on the narrator and main characters figures in order to problematize the political
engagement present on Angolan literature from the decolonization period. We bring the
hypothesis that a specific melancholic discourse highlights the identities that suppose
resistance to the colonial yoke and to the new nationalist commands. This proposed study
reason can be searched specially on the fact that the engagement and melancholy of the
author is, also, of people who constitute its identities in a post-colonial context, in the
tensions of cultural hybridity, displacements, transits, divisions and fissures of modern
project, which brings out a variety of struggles around, among others, blackness, pan-
Africanism, tribalism, Angolanity, gender relations, traditions and their translations,
neoliberal advancement, disenchantment, melancholy and resistance.
Keywords: Engagement. Melancholy. Melancholy of resistance. Identity. Mayombe. A
Geração da Utopia. Pepetela.
