IMPÉRIOS DESMITIFICADOS: RUY DUARTE DE CARVALHO E O PASSADO COLONIAL REESCRITO / DEMYTHICIZED EMPIRES: RUY DUARTE DE CARVALHO AND THE COLONIAL PAST REWRITTEN

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2009

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Demythicized Empires: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho and the colonial past rewritten has the purpose of verifying the way Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, when dialoging in Os Papéis do Inglês with colonial narratives from English and Portuguese Literatures - having the romance Heart of Darkness and the short story The return (both from Joseph Conrad) in distinction, as well as the chronicle of Henrique Galvão entitled O branco que odiava as brancas - suggests the rewriting of Angola¿s history from the perspective of an Angolan intellectual citizen. Rewriting the history does not mean however, in this context, to deny or lose the merit of the value of the colonial narratives. On the contrary, what Ruy Duarte de Carvalho shows us is that the issue is settled exactly in the moment when the speech is taken as the official truth, while the others are consigned to silence. Due to this, in Os Papéis do Inglês, instead of proceeding with the refusal of the colonial speeches, the author proposes them a new version in order to evidence that history is not exposed to one only interpretation, since it can be re-read and re-interpreted by any individual and at any time. This work was developed having its focus on the texts of the post-colonial theorists (as Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Stuart Hall, Russell Hamilton, Boaventura de Sousa Santos), works that analyze the literary creation of Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Henrique Galvão and Joseph Conrad, as well as the ones that approach the historical context in which these writers¿ narratives were produced.

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