‘I saw the word border’ - the multiple edges in Niketche: a story of polygamy
This paper analyzes the novel Niketche: a history of polygamy, by the Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane, based on Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined community (1991), and on cultural identities in post-modernity, as proposed by Stuart Hall (1992). Inspired by the authors Sandro Mezzadra, and B...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) |
| Repositório: | Abril (Niterói) |
| Idioma: | português |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/58673 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.uff.br/revistaabril/article/view/58673 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Imagined communities Border Nationalism Mozambique Comunidades imaginadas. Fronteira Nacionalismo Moçambique |
| Resumo: | This paper analyzes the novel Niketche: a history of polygamy, by the Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane, based on Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined community (1991), and on cultural identities in post-modernity, as proposed by Stuart Hall (1992). Inspired by the authors Sandro Mezzadra, and Brett Neilson (2017), the analysis proposes the understanding of borders as a method of confronting colonial categories. Thus, the paper analyzes the tensions between binomials exposed in the novel, starting from the opposition between man and woman, and understanding that the very friction between borders is, in itself, a reinvention of them, and an attitude of reconstruction in the fight against violence and silencing of identities. |
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