From Philology of the War to The Feminine Ambivalence in As Duas Sombras do Rio, by João Paulo Borges Coelho

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  • Nazir Ahmed Can Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.23.2.77-89

Keywords:

Mozambican literature, war, representation of women, João Paulo Borges Coelho

Abstract

In his first novel, As duas sombras do rio, João Paulo Borges Coelho explores various dimensions of the Mozambican civil war, including family dissolution, illegal trading and the trauma experienced by women. We will analyze how the female characters in this novel are no longer noticed by their passive character or as victims of a war made exclusively by men: rather, they are individualized, active in different ways. Performing multiple roles in the social hierarchy of the novel, their fates come together only by the existential division and the transience, both conditions made visible in the contrasted description of their intimate states and public actions.

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Published

2013-08-30

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Can, N. A. (2013). From Philology of the War to The Feminine Ambivalence in As Duas Sombras do Rio, by João Paulo Borges Coelho. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 23(2), 77–89. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.23.2.77-89

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2013): Memórias de Guerra

Section

Sessão 2. Memórias e Imagens de Guerras Civis

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