Transatlantic sertões: the backlands of Ruy Duarte de Carvalho and Mia Couto
Authors
Troianowski Saramago, VictoriaPublisher
Universidad de Alcalá
Date
2017Bibliographic citation
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 8, n. 1 (2017), pp. 79-97
Keywords
Sertão
Lusophone studies
Ecocriticism
Postcolonial studies
Estudios lusófonos
Ecocrítica
Estudios poscoloniales
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Rights
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
This article develops a transatlantic approach to the colonial and postcolonial uses of the term "sertão" (backlands) in Angola, Brazil, and Mozambique through analyzing the works of Mia Couto and Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, especially in their readings of João Guimarães Rosa. By focusing on their fictional and essayistic work, I analyze how these authors explore social and environmental dimensions of different sertões in order to negotiate the multiplicity of meanings the term has acquired on both continents. Este artículo toma un acercamiento transatlántico a los usos coloniales y poscoloniales del término "sertão" (lugar desierto) en Angola, Brasil y Mozambique por medio del análisis de las obras de Mia Couto y Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, particularmente en cuanto a sus lecturas de João Guimarães Rosa. Al abordar sus ensayos y ficción, analizo cómo exploran las dimensiones sociales y ambientales de distintos sertões para negociar la multiplicidad de significados que el término ha adquirido en ambos continentes.
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