Still rocking after all these years: adamastor writes back

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Autor(a) principal: Biscaia,Maria Sofia Pimentel
Data de Publicação: 2015
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0807-89672015000300013
Resumo: This paper investigates the discursive construction of the mythical Adamastor in André Brink's The First Life of Adamastor (1993) vis-a-vis the one presented in its hypertext, The Lusiads by Luíz Vaz de Camões (1572). The latter celebrates the Portuguese colonialist enterprise and therefore it has been material in the construction of the Portuguese national identity. The identity built in a faraway past still prevails today, closely interconnected with notions of imperialist nostalgia. In his novel, Brink rewrites/recreates the figure of the giant as a South African native, providing the insight of the ‘Other', at the same time that the binarism is problematically reversed for this time around it is the colonized who is the Subject. This reversal produces an intricate ‘writing back' which is most significant in terms of gender and, in particular, in the controversial construction of the role of women in that process as the text could be argued to reinscribe paradigms of misogyny.
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title Still rocking after all these years: adamastor writes back
spellingShingle Still rocking after all these years: adamastor writes back
Biscaia,Maria Sofia Pimentel
Adamastor
The First Life of Adamastor
nationalism
ethnicity
gender
title_short Still rocking after all these years: adamastor writes back
title_full Still rocking after all these years: adamastor writes back
title_fullStr Still rocking after all these years: adamastor writes back
title_full_unstemmed Still rocking after all these years: adamastor writes back
title_sort Still rocking after all these years: adamastor writes back
author Biscaia,Maria Sofia Pimentel
author_facet Biscaia,Maria Sofia Pimentel
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Biscaia,Maria Sofia Pimentel
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Adamastor
The First Life of Adamastor
nationalism
ethnicity
gender
topic Adamastor
The First Life of Adamastor
nationalism
ethnicity
gender
description This paper investigates the discursive construction of the mythical Adamastor in André Brink's The First Life of Adamastor (1993) vis-a-vis the one presented in its hypertext, The Lusiads by Luíz Vaz de Camões (1572). The latter celebrates the Portuguese colonialist enterprise and therefore it has been material in the construction of the Portuguese national identity. The identity built in a faraway past still prevails today, closely interconnected with notions of imperialist nostalgia. In his novel, Brink rewrites/recreates the figure of the giant as a South African native, providing the insight of the ‘Other', at the same time that the binarism is problematically reversed for this time around it is the colonized who is the Subject. This reversal produces an intricate ‘writing back' which is most significant in terms of gender and, in particular, in the controversial construction of the role of women in that process as the text could be argued to reinscribe paradigms of misogyny.
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