(Não) pertencimento: territorialidades e desterritorialização em fronteiras perdidas e passageiros em trânsito, de José Eduardo Agualusa

Abstract

The Fronteiras Perdidas: Contos para viajar (1990) e Passageiros em Trânsito (2006) works constitute a literary journey through the time-space of colonization and beyond. The narratives deconstruct official versions of Angolan history, breaking with the traditional historiographical linearity, recounting facts with additions of unknown elements. Our studies follow a look turned to African Literature of Portuguese Language in order to analyze in the works under study, not only the consequences of the colonization process, but to distinguish between space and territory to understand the process of deterritorialization through which the characters, in addition to highlighting the difficulties experienced amidst the civil wars and the characteristics of the lack of belonging that mark the identity of these characters. In this way, the idea of convenience, a safe haven for identities, will be undone and fluidity and identity movements will be considered. Remaining or feeling part of a place becomes a choice or a consequence that will make the subjects remake themselves as new situations happen in their lives. The construction of this thesis involves theoretical perspectives followed by different authors, including: Bauman (2011), Bhabha (2013), Deleuze (2011), Glissant (2005), Haesbaert (2007) e Augé (1994).