Óscar Ribas: Escrita e Mediação

  • Rita Chaves Universidade de São Paulo
Keywords: Angolan literature, colonial literature, national literature, ethnographic narrative

Abstract

Within the universe of contradictions that defined colonial society, Óscar Ribas’s work dynamically articulates the complex relation between intellectual activity and historical process. His career underscores the many impasses faced by authors committed to developing discourse rooted in an understanding of Angola and the formation of a productive imaginary capable of resisting the occlusions and/or the stereotypical vision that characterized colonial literature.

Author Biography

Rita Chaves, Universidade de São Paulo

Rita Chaves is Associate Professor of Lusophone African Literatures at the University of São Paulo. She is the author of A formação do romance angolano (1999) and Angola e Moçambique: experiência colonial e territórios literários (2005). She has co-edited, among others, Portanto...Pepetela (2002); Mia Couto: um convite à diferença (2013).

Published
2016-11-27