Releituras dos primórdios da colonização de Angola nos idos do século XVII em A rainha Ginga, de Agualusa e a Sul. O sombreiro, de Pepetela

Abstract

Historical novels take an important role of presenting, through a fiction view, some perspectives that sometimes have been seen only through one point of view, ignoring the diversity of the whole historical process. Thus, giving voice to subject peoples is one of the possibilities this kind of narrative provides, as in the historical novels A rainha Ginga e de como os africanos inventaram o mundo and A sul. O sombreiro, by the angolan writers Agualusa and Pepetela, respectively. In this way, this research aimed to interpret the aforementioned novels, focusing on the way that the protagonists of both works are characterized, that is, which aesthetic processes were applied in these representations and how the themes of slavery and anticlericalism were outlined; The presence of the jagas in the narratives shows how they play the role of constructing the counternarratives. To do this, some discussions are presented by literary critics, such as the dialogue between Literature and History, present in all of the texts, specially in the historical novels, which play an important role of recapturing the past. Some concepts and discussions concerning the counternarratives are highlighted, texts that work against the hegemonic discourse and the narrative itself, which are represented through the kinds of novels. The analyses are theoretically based on the assumptions of Dal Farra (1976), Weinhardt (2011), Veyne (1998), Albuquerque Junior (2007), Heywood (2017), Fonseca (2012), Mata (2012), (2014), Martins (2014), among others.