Reimaginando a herança africana em contos

Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues

doi:10.12957/matraga.2019.42396

Reimagining the African heritage in short stories

Authors

Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues Fundação Técnico-Educacional Souza Marques (FTESM) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5653-6846

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2019.42396

Keywords:

Reimagined African heritage, Afro-Brazilian short stories, Mãe Beata de Yemonjá.

Abstract

This article aims to present a critical study of selected short stories by Mãe Beata de Yemonjá (1931-2017), author of Histórias que a minha avó contava (2004) and Caroço de Dendê (2008). In her work, the writer engages in literary representations of symbolic elements derived from African cultures and reconfigured in Brazil, understood as a diasporic territory for black subjects. The tropes of this reimagined and recreated Africa unveil the cultural agency of a storyteller who deals with culture as a strategy of survival in contexts marked by a history of racism and intolerance towards African-derived traditions.

Author Biography

Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues, Fundação Técnico-Educacional Souza Marques (FTESM)

Professor adjunto de língua inglesa e literaturas de língua inglesa na Fundação Técnico-Educacional Souza Marques (FTESM). Pós-Doutor em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) com bolsa FAPERJ Nota 10 (2017). Doutor em Literatura Comparada pela UERJ (2016). Realizou estágio doutoral no Dartmouth College, EUA, com bolsa CAPES/Fulbright (2014-2015).

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2020-01-28

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Rodrigues, F. F. X. (2020). Reimagining the African heritage in short stories. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 26(48), 635–653. https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2019.42396

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Vol. 26 No. 48 (2019): African and African Diaspora Literatures

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