On the mirror of the memory: Macau a mythical place of reconstruction of identity in the works of Maria Ondina Braga
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v38i1.26921Keywords:
alterity, identity, Macao, images, exoticism, imagology, portuguese literatureAbstract
Born in Braga in January 1932, where she also died (March 2003), the Portuguese writer and translator Maria Ondina Braga travelled to several countries, lived in England, France, India (Goa), Angola, Macau and China. Those existential journeys to different corners of the world are fictionalized into her narratives, as in Estátua de Sal (Braga, 1965b) and A Passagem do Cabo (Braga, 1994) – which will be analyzed in this work. By drawing on imagology we shall discuss the mechanisms used by the narrator in the process of identity reconstruction, through the memory in the midst of alterity and the exotic ‘Other’, having Macao as a scenario.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2026 Dora Maria Nunes Gago
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY AND COPYRIGHTS
I Declare that current article is original and has not been submitted for publication, in part or in whole, to any other national or international journal.
The copyrights belong exclusively to the authors. Published content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) guidelines, which allows sharing (copy and distribution of the material in any medium or format) and adaptation (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, even commercially, under the terms of attribution.
Read this link for further information on how to use CC BY 4.0 properly.
How to Cite
6.png){kind=logo}
