Between fiction and reality: an investigation into the anticolonial message of the bantu religious practices in “Quicumbi Assanhada” by Arnaldo Santos
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of the present article is to investigate the linguistic strategies used by Arnaldo Santos to decolonise the Angolan literature through the spiritual discourse of Bantu derivation in the short story “Quicumbi assanhada”, initially contained in the collection titled Tempos do Munhungo (1968) and then included in Kinaxixe e outras prosas (1982). In the above story, by combining real-life events with elements coming from his imagination as a writer, Arnaldo Santos is able to compose a literary piece that depicts the simple life of the oppressed people from Luanda, hence sustaining an anti-colonial literature that subverts the order imposed by the Portuguese regime, before the birth of the Angolan country.
Source: Revista Diadorim
Author: Vincenzo Cammarata
Institution: King's College London
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3122446801