Luís Bernardo Honwana, immobility and violence in the perspective of children

Authors

  • Marana Borges Universidade de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9826.literartes.2018.153289

Keywords:

Honwana, We killed Mangy Dog and other Mozambique stories, colonialism, Mozambican literature, Rosita

Abstract

The short stories collection We killed Mangy Dog and other Mozambique stories (1964), by Luís Bernardo Honwana, was a turning point in contemporary Mozambican literature. In this review, I analyse the second edition in Brazil, which includes an extra short story. I consider the children view of violence and its consequent bewilderment caused in the reader. I also argue that the impossibility to provide meaning to the violence prevents the characters from rising against colonial authority.

Author Biography

  • Marana Borges, Universidade de Lisboa

     Formada em Jornalismo pela Universidade de São Paulo, mestre em Teoria da Literatura pela Universidade de Lisboa e doutoranda pela mesma instituição. Atualmente é pesquisadora residente no Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), em Paris.

Published

2018-12-29

How to Cite

BORGES, Marana. Luís Bernardo Honwana, immobility and violence in the perspective of children. Literartes, São Paulo, Brasil, v. 1, n. 9, p. 198–207, 2018. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9826.literartes.2018.153289. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/literartes/article/view/153289.. Acesso em: 15 may. 2024.