ECHOES OF A COSTA DOS MURMÚRIOS IN A NOITE DAS MULHERES CANTORAS, BY LÍDIA JORGE. FORGETFULNESS, MEMORY AND SOCIAL PARABLES
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https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.4938Keywords:
memory, emotional engagement, colonialism, racism, sexismAbstract
The main goal of this paper is to establish parallels or, as it were, some form of continuity between two novels by Lídia Jorge that are several decades apart: A Costa dos Murmúrios (1988) and A Noite das Mulheres Cantoras (2011). It is argued that both novels can be read as social parables – their very different subjects notwithstanding built on the dichotomy oblivion / memory. Structurally, in particular, each novel includes a brief narrative representing the impulse to forget or to hide, which is followed by a long tale apparently destined to unveil and force recall of everything that, before, had been meant to be obliterated.
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