Nação Crioula, by José Eduardo Agualusa: epistolary novel and communal identity
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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i27.99901Keywords:
epistolary, historiographic fiction, colonization, identity, lusophonyAbstract
In the epistolary novel entitled Nação Crioula, José Eduardo Agualusa revisits the character named Fradique Mendes intertextually through multiple mises-en-abyme. Making him live and escribe in his (other) correspondence the tricontinental adventures evoked in Eça de Queiros' prototext, the author makes an ironic revision of Portuguese colonial history, examining the interrelations between individual identity and collective identity. The account of the character's experience questions identity construction whilst also considering an individual, a nation, a linguistic community and, in fine, the author's own identity.
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