From duplicity to the double: reading the upside down embroidery in José Eduardo Agualusa’s - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v34i1.8389

Auteurs-es

  • Rita Maria Knop Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais - PUC/MG
  • Virgínia Carvalho de Assis Costa Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais - PUC/MG

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v34i1.8389

Mots-clés :

angolan literature, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, double, minor literature, national identity

Résumé

Doubleness and duplicity in the novel The Book of Chameleons by the Angolan writer Jose Eduardo Agualusa are analyzed. The two factors may be found in the identification between the two narrators and in the two most emphasized possibilities in the interpretation of the novel, or rather, subjectivity and national identity. Agualusa’s novel may also be defined as belonging to ‘minor literature’, as conceived by Deleuze and Guattari’s text Kafka: Toward a minor literature. According to these authors, in minor literature, each subject is inscribed in and connected with politics, a highly strong factor in The Book of Chameleons.



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Biographie de l'auteur-e

  • Virgínia Carvalho de Assis Costa, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais - PUC/MG
    Jornalista mestranda em Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa, bolsista da Capes

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2011-12-21

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From duplicity to the double: reading the upside down embroidery in José Eduardo Agualusa’s - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v34i1.8389. (2011). Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 34(1), 97-101. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v34i1.8389

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