Mia Couto: justice and “bare life”, in The Last Flight of the Flamingo
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Resumo: | My reading follows the challenge we are confronted with, as a sort of enigma, at the beginning of the novel: “did the [UN] soldiers die? Were they killed?”. Looking for an answer, it ponders those issues of life and death, as they are posed by the fictive world of Tizangara. And it understands those concepts by taking into account not only Walter Benjamin’s positions, in his Critique of Violence, but also the thoughts of both Emmanuel Lévinas and Jacques Derrida. Reviewing the existing critical bibliography on Mia Couto’s novel as well, it offers an alternative way of understanding the death of the UN soldiers in Tizangara by capturing, in the speech of father Muhando and that of his closest friends, the wizard Zeca Andorinho and the old Suplício, certain transposed principles of the bible that also help us to understand the tragic alegory of the disappearance of the nation at the end of the novel. |
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Mia Couto: justice and “bare life”, in The Last Flight of the FlamingoMia Couto: justiça e “vida nua”, em O Último Voo do FlamingoJustice. Law. Bare life. Alterity. Responsability.Justiça.Lei. Vida Nua. Alteridade. Responsabilidade.Uma releitura do romance O último Voo do Flamingode Mia CoutoMy reading follows the challenge we are confronted with, as a sort of enigma, at the beginning of the novel: “did the [UN] soldiers die? Were they killed?”. Looking for an answer, it ponders those issues of life and death, as they are posed by the fictive world of Tizangara. And it understands those concepts by taking into account not only Walter Benjamin’s positions, in his Critique of Violence, but also the thoughts of both Emmanuel Lévinas and Jacques Derrida. Reviewing the existing critical bibliography on Mia Couto’s novel as well, it offers an alternative way of understanding the death of the UN soldiers in Tizangara by capturing, in the speech of father Muhando and that of his closest friends, the wizard Zeca Andorinho and the old Suplício, certain transposed principles of the bible that also help us to understand the tragic alegory of the disappearance of the nation at the end of the novel.A minha leitura segue o desafio com que somos confrontados, como uma espécie de enigma, no início do romance: “os soldados [da ONU] morreram? Foram mortos?”. Em busca de uma resposta, pondera aquelas questões que dizem respeito aos problemas da morte e da vida, tal como eles são colocados no mundo ficcional de Tizangara. Compreende-os, então, com base nas posições contidas em Sobre uma crítica do poder como violência de Walter Benjamin e nos pensamentos, quer de Emmanuel Lévinas, quer de Jacques Derrida. Reconsiderando, também, a bibliografia crítica existente sobre o romance de Mia Couto, ela oferece igualmente uma nova forma de entender as mortes de Tizangara, discernindo, no discurso do padre Muhando e nos do círculo das suas amizades, Zeca Andorinho e Sulplício, os pressupostos transformados de uma certa leitura da Bíblia que nos ajuda a entender a aleoria trágica do final do romance.Editora da PUCRS - ediPUCRS2020-01-06info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/navegacoes/article/view/3396110.15448/1983-4276.2019.2.33961Navegações; Vol. 12 No. 2 (2019); e33961Navegações; v. 12 n. 2 (2019); e339611983-42761982-852710.15448/1983-4276.2019.2reponame:Navegações (Online)instname:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)instacron:PUC_RSporhttps://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/navegacoes/article/view/33961/19342Copyright (c) 2020 Navegaçõesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPereira, José Paulo Cruz2020-01-06T14:58:42Zoai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/33961Revistahttps://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/navegacoesPRIhttps://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/navegacoes/oai||revistanavegacoes@pucrs.br1983-42761982-8527opendoar:2020-01-06T14:58:42Navegações (Online) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)false |
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Mia Couto: justice and “bare life”, in The Last Flight of the Flamingo Mia Couto: justiça e “vida nua”, em O Último Voo do Flamingo |
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Mia Couto: justice and “bare life”, in The Last Flight of the Flamingo |
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Mia Couto: justice and “bare life”, in The Last Flight of the Flamingo Pereira, José Paulo Cruz Justice. Law. Bare life. Alterity. Responsability. Justiça.Lei. Vida Nua. Alteridade. Responsabilidade. Uma releitura do romance O último Voo do Flamingo de Mia Couto |
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Mia Couto: justice and “bare life”, in The Last Flight of the Flamingo |
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Mia Couto: justice and “bare life”, in The Last Flight of the Flamingo |
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Mia Couto: justice and “bare life”, in The Last Flight of the Flamingo |
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Mia Couto: justice and “bare life”, in The Last Flight of the Flamingo |
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Mia Couto: justice and “bare life”, in The Last Flight of the Flamingo |
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Pereira, José Paulo Cruz |
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Pereira, José Paulo Cruz |
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Pereira, José Paulo Cruz |
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Justice. Law. Bare life. Alterity. Responsability. Justiça.Lei. Vida Nua. Alteridade. Responsabilidade. Uma releitura do romance O último Voo do Flamingo de Mia Couto |
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Justice. Law. Bare life. Alterity. Responsability. Justiça.Lei. Vida Nua. Alteridade. Responsabilidade. Uma releitura do romance O último Voo do Flamingo de Mia Couto |
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My reading follows the challenge we are confronted with, as a sort of enigma, at the beginning of the novel: “did the [UN] soldiers die? Were they killed?”. Looking for an answer, it ponders those issues of life and death, as they are posed by the fictive world of Tizangara. And it understands those concepts by taking into account not only Walter Benjamin’s positions, in his Critique of Violence, but also the thoughts of both Emmanuel Lévinas and Jacques Derrida. Reviewing the existing critical bibliography on Mia Couto’s novel as well, it offers an alternative way of understanding the death of the UN soldiers in Tizangara by capturing, in the speech of father Muhando and that of his closest friends, the wizard Zeca Andorinho and the old Suplício, certain transposed principles of the bible that also help us to understand the tragic alegory of the disappearance of the nation at the end of the novel. |
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