PORTRAIT OF AN INVISIBLE LUANDA IN OS TRANSPARENTES, BY ONDJAKI
Abstract
In Os transparentes (2012), the Angolan writer Ondjaki presents the city of Luanda as, more than a geographical indication, a symbolic construction capable of reflecting and problematizing the recent history of his country. Contemporary landscape, marked by deep scars, the Angolan capital is described in its unequal relations of occupation of urban space and social visibility. In this irregular landscape, where the exception is established as a rule, the erasing of the subject, its progressive invisibility, is the textual representation of a place where the human loses space for material values in an increasingly objectified society. The present work intends to analyze how the narrative space recovers the historical-cultural process experienced by Angolans, thus constituting a line of escape in a horizon of violence and chaos.
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