A tecedura da angolanidade no discurso literário de José Luandino Vieira

Abstract

This paper seeks to reflect on the construction and maintenance of Angolaness and the utopian spirit in the works A verdadeira Vida de Domingos Xavier (1986), Nós, os do Makulusu (1977), the short story book A Cidade e a Infância (2007) and the stories of the work Luuanda (2006) - all of the Angolan writer José Vieira Luandino. Seeking reimagine a cultural profile ruled in promoting a sense of belonging to the land, and the utopian spirit that fueled the subject in the period near the political decolonization of Angola, the engaged work of Luandino Vieira reconfigures social images and allows glimpse collective actions based on the awareness of the need for a political action in opposition to the hegemonic efforts of Portuguese colonialism. The analysis here circulates around three main axes: the praise of the space of Luanda as the epitome for Angola, its ecology and symbolism; the reworking of memory as a motivating factor to the action and not to the collective inertia; registration of kimbundo speech and orality of the characters representative of the people of Angolan slums, resulting in re-elaborating the language used in the literary discourse, as a proposal of resistance and provocation to the cultural hegemony of the metropolis. The reflections in this work run through a cut done in works previously mentioned, in order to detect some of the strategies used by the writer to promote his project of denouncement and motivation towards social and political change in his country. Notes from thinkers like Jean Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Luis Kandjimbo, Andreas Huyssen, Ernst Bloch and Edouard Glissan, among others, will be used as theoretical support for the weighing carried.