Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: Altair Sofientini Ciecoski

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : Altair Sofientini Ciecoski
DATA : 28/06/2024
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: PPGEL POR MEIO REMOTO
TÍTULO:

THE PROMISED AFRICA AND THE RETURN HOME: 

REPRESENTATIONS AND FIGURATIONS OF MEMORY IN NOVELS FROM THE LITERATURE OF “RETURNED”

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

“Literature of returnees”; portuguese colonial empire; portuguese-speaking
African countries; representations and memory.

PÁGINAS: 104
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Língua Portuguesa
RESUMO:

The aim of this research is to investigate how the characters and historical events are
represented in the so-called “returnee novels”, works that often bring to light the exodus of
populations that returned to Portugal on the occasion of the Portuguese decolonization of
Africa and the respective independence of the former colonies of Portuguese-speaking
African countries. Having as corpus three works of these literatures, The returned: a love
never forgets (2010), by Júlio Magalhães; The Return (2013), by Dulce Maria Cardoso and
The fat (2018), by Isabela Figueiredo, also aim to examine the memory of the characters in
the aforementioned novels, in a special way of the protagonists Joana, Rui and Maria Luísa
and, through the figurations that came to fruition in the fictional web of the works, present
evidence of restless forbidden traces about the colonial period, as well as understanding
how which forms the collective experiences of those who returned to Portugal are
(re)experienced by the individual memories of the characters. It is planned to find an
auspicious setting here to learn a little more about the dramas and misadventures of the
“returnees”. Furthermore, when seeking to understand literary representation and the
historical framework surrounding this literature, we will reflect on Portuguese colonization
in general and, in a specific way, on the Portuguese presence in Angola and Mozambique,
delving into , in turn, in studies on the Portuguese Colonial Empire. Finally, in plots where
characters and facts migrate to the territory of fiction, we will analyze, through critical
analyzes and epistemological developments, the border between two distinct, yet
contiguous, discourses present in the narratives: on the one hand, the reports about a lost
exotic paradise, on the other, the great changes that the “returnees” underwent regarding
integration in the new metropolis. However, the path and critical practice that we propose
to develop here are also contrapuntal, in the sense that when we reflect on this nostalgic
reading of the loss of an “exotic land”, we will also discuss the extent to which this land
was the object of social violence and politics for the Portuguese imperialist project.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 83238001 - VERA LUCIA DA ROCHA MAQUEA
Interno - 46475020 - AGNALDO RODRIGUES DA SILVA
Interna - 54869003 - MARINEI ALMEIDA
Externa à Instituição - JOSALBA FABIANA DOS SANTOS - UFS