O processo de ficcionalização histórica da Angola seiscentista em A Sul. O sombreiro

Abstract

One of the most significative tendencies of African literature, with an special enphasis in the Angolan literature, is to privilege the fiction by highlighting the story, Pepetela being one of the most representative and systematic author soft his fictional genre. Taking it as a start, this research aims to observe the established relations between fiction and History in the construction of A Sul. O sombreiro (2011), the penultimate work from the writer Pepetela. In its contents, first a discussion about the approximations and detachments between History and Literature and, from this perspective, the process of fictionalizing the history and some representative authors in this novel modality. Contextualizing the analysis corpus´, a biobibliographic revision of the author is undertaken in order to discuss specifically about the chosen work. A parallel amongst Pepetela´s work and António de Oliveira Cadornega book, História Geral das Guerras Angolanas (1680), is made. At last, the versatility of the narrative form built by the author is highlighted, enjoying the multiple narrator pepeteliano. The analysis is theoretically based in multidisciplinar studies of Albuquerque Júnior, Sandra J. Pesavento, Ligia Chiappini, Marilene Weinhardt, Luiz Costa Lima, Inocência Mata, Rita Chaves, Tania Macêdo, Laura Padilha, Jorge Macedo, Francisco Soares, Walter Benjamin, Silviano Santiago, Theodor Adorno, among others.