The river of croddings: the historical perspective in Os tambores de São Luís, by Josué Montello and A gloriosa família - o tempo dos flamengos, by Pepetela / O fio das travessias: a perspectiva histórica em Os tambores de São Luís, de Josué Montello e A gloriosa família - o tempo dos flamengos, de Pepetela

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2009

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The novels called Os tambores de São Luís (1975) by the brazilian Josué Montello, and A gloriosa família - o tempo dos flamengos (1997), by the angolan Pepetela, maintain a dialogue with the Angolan history and the Maranhão history respectively, closing the borders between literature and history. More than to narrow borders, they investigate a narrative place where the form and content interact outside their margins of origin: literature and history are displaced looking for other truths that once separated, neither one of them could conceive. Certainly, however, that the historical perspective of each novel make them seem different tending to the sacramental function in Montello and to the desacramental one in Pepetela. While the story is part of the background of the montellian narrative, it is an organic part of the pepetelian narrative through a temporal contrary projection: in Montello there is a retrospective meaning and in Pepetela a prospective one that comes out the unique quality of the novels. From the peculiar vision that governs the organization of each narrative, the historical experience shared by the tragic colonial legacy and slavery takes a different bias where since the beginning it is possible to wonder how each novelist re-read his own history. Thus, far from having a fully alignment by the historical perspective, the novels are differentiated from it and this comparative work is concerned to demonstrate precisely how this happens.

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montello montello fiction and history colonial legacy and slavery pepetela pepetela herança colonial e escravista ficção e história perspectiva histórica historic perspective

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