Homens e cães em "Jordão" e "Nós matámos o cão tinhoso"

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Ana
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/67098
• topic: Cão; João de Araújo Correia; Luís Bernardo Honwana; Dogs; Dogs and literature; “Jordão”; “Nós matámos o Cão-Tinhoso”; Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas

This study focus on “Jordão” (1951), a short story by the Portuguese writer João de Araújo Correia, and “Nós matámos o Cão-Tinhoso”, written by the Mozambican writer Luís Bernardo Honwana. It starts with a brief survey about the presence of dogs in literature, stressing an evolution from a symbolic perspective to a more realistic one, influenced by new ways of conceiving animals, including human animals. The two narratives are compared in order to stress the similarities they share, namely a lonely and excluded human protagonist and a friendly dog protagonist victimized by a discretionary power that is only strong with the weak.