Luanda, world-city, or the aesthetics of unequal development in Os Transparentes, by Ondjaki

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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.i40.160993

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World-mundo, Luanda, Os transparentes, Ondjaki

Abstract

Angola’s entry into the neoliberal economy and the end of the civil war gave Luanda the appearance of a building site aiming the status of a global city. However, the economic changes resulting from (asymmetric) relations with international capital were not able to remove the existing inequalities and the spatial logic of exclusion embedded in the city. Taking this context and the conceptions of World-Literature defined by members of the Warwick Research Collective (2015), the article analyzes the contradictions of the capitalist world-system in Ondjaki’s novel Os transparentes (2013), understood here as a cultural expression of the contradictory logic of modernity.

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  • Adriana Cristina Aguiar Rodrigues, Universidade Fedral do Amazonas (UFAM)

    Professora Assistente de Literatura na Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Doutorado em andamento em Teoria e História Literária pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas, com projeto de pesquisa financiado pela Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas.

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Published

2021-12-06

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2021): A Literatura-Mundial e o Sistema-Mundial Moderno

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Dossiê 40: A Literatura-Mundial e o Sistema-Mundial Moderno

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RODRIGUES, Adriana Cristina Aguiar. Luanda, world-city, or the aesthetics of unequal development in Os Transparentes, by Ondjaki. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 22, n. 2, p. 364–399, 2021. DOI: 10.11606/va.i40.160993. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/160993.. Acesso em: 20 may. 2024.