Contemporary fictional perspectives on the modernisation and the globalisation in southern cities
Crossed readings of Cinzas do norte, O desejo de Kianda and Texaco
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v0i22p72-84Keywords:
contemporary novel, cities, african literature, caribean literature, brazilian literatureAbstract
In a context of important social transformations, and of economic and urbanistic modernisation, Texaco (1992) by Patrick Chamoiseau, O desejo de Kianda (1995) by Pepetela and Cinzas do norte (2005) by Milton Hatoum are three novels that, despite evident differences regarding the cities but also the plots and the writing styles, represent, with fragmentary structures, the diversity and the pulsation of urban life, whereas the capitalism tends to disaggregate the human bonds. We will try to analyse how these novels interrogate the destruction of nature and the transformation, badly planned, of urban landscapes; how they grasp the accentuation of social and spatial contrasts, that are seeds of poverty and urban violence; and, finally, how they represent peripheral zones that were built hastily because of the increase of the population, in areas that were all impacted by the colonisation.
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BHABHA (Homi K.), O local da cultura, traduzido por Myriam Ávila, Belo Horizonte, Editora da UFMG, 2007 (1994)
CELESTINO DE MACÊDO (Tania), Angola e Brasil: estudos comparados, São Paulo, Arte & Ciência, 2002
CERTEAU (Michel de), L’invention du quotidien. 1. Arts de faire, Paris, Gallimard, « Folio Essais », 1990 (1980)
CURY (Maria Zilda), Topografias da cultura – Representacao, espaco e memoria, Belo Horizonte, Editora UFMG, 2009
CURY, (Maria Zilda), “Poéticas da precariedade”, Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, Brasília, no. 41, jan/jun de 2013, p. 33-46
FERNANDES (Florestan), A Revolução burguesa no Brasil. Ensaio de interpretação sociológica, São Paulo, Globo, 2006 (1975)
FLORES JÚNIOR (Wilson José), « Modernização pelo avesso: a São Paulo da década de 20 em Os Contos de Belazarte », in Jacqueline Penjon et Antonio Pasta Junior (organisadores), Littérature et modernisation au Brésil, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004, p. 41-54
GARRIC (Henri), Portraits de ville. Marches et cartes : la représentation urbaine dans les discours contemporains, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2007
GLISSANT (Édouard), Pays rêvé, pays réel. Suivi de Fastes et de Les Grands Chaos, Paris, Gallimard, 2000 (1985)
LEFEBVRE (Henri), Le droit à la ville suivi de Espace et politique, Paris, Anthropos, 1972 (1968)
MOSER (Walter) et KLUCINSKAS (Jean), « Introduction. L’esthétique à l’épreuve du recyclage culturel », in Esthétiques et recyclages culturels. Explorations de la culture contemporaine, Ottawa, Presses de l’université d’Ottawa, 2004, p. 1-27
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PAULET (Jean-Pierre), Géographie urbaine, Paris, Armand Colin, 2009
PEÇANHA COUTO (João Luiz), “A cidade dos quarenta mil abismos”, Recorte (UninCor), v. 13, 2016, p. 1-22.
PEPETELA, A geração da utopia, Lisboa, Dom Quixote, 2013 (1992)
RAMA (Ángel), La ciudad letrada, Ediciones del Norte, Hanover, 1984
SANTOS (Milton), Por uma outra globalização. Do pensamento único à consciência universal, Rio de Janeiro, Record, 2000
SCHWARZ (Roberto), Ao vencedor, as batatas, São Paulo, Duas Cidades, 1977
SCHWARZ (Roberto), Martinha versus Lucrécia, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2012
TROIN (Jean-François), Les métropoles des “Sud”, Paris, Ellipses, « Carrefours de géographie », 2000
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Weigel, F. (2018). Contemporary fictional perspectives on the modernisation and the globalisation in southern cities: Crossed readings of Cinzas do norte, O desejo de Kianda and Texaco. Revista Criação & Crítica, 22, 72-84. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v0i22p72-84
