XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC

XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC

Resumo:1053-1

Oral (Tema Livre)

1053-1	Dystopian African literature: Pepetelas case
Autores:	Fernanda Alencar Pereira (UNB - Universidade de Brasília)

Resumo

The Angolan novelist Pepetela described in Geração da Utopia (1992) [The Utopia Generation] 30 years of the generation who lived the pre-independence period in Angola and who saw their idealized project of a sovereign country sink in the dark waters of corruption and neocolonialism. Recently, in 2005, Pepetela published Predadores [Predators]. In this novel, the main character is on the other side of Angolan history: Vladimiro Caposso is a corrupt businessman who profits from the post-independence reality of his country to enrich himself. The society described in these novels is composed of dystopian characteristics, such as human misery and oppression, which become transparent to the eyes of the readers by the voice of the critical narrators. Considering the definition of dystopia as a bad or inhospitable place, and unbinding this concept from an apocalyptical view of future societies, this presentation aims at analyzing the combined perspective of these two novels to investigate how this literature represents the dystopian reality of African countries like Angola, in the late 20th century, and the role this representation plays in the Angolan literary context.

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