Angola facing chaos: the memory as rescue of angolan tradition in “Parable of the Old Tortous”

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Carolina Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Rita de Cássia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Letras Raras
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.editora.ufcg.edu.br/index.php/RLR/article/view/1179
• topic: Angolano; Ulume; tradição; memória

In investigating the identity constitution of the African continent, we come across a landscape immersed in territorialdisputes and cultural impositions. African countries have positioned themselves in different ways in this reality,intending to resist the appropriation of their space and attempt to erase culture. It is under this scenario that Pepetelain Parabola do Cágado Velho (1996) transits in order to narrate the trajectory of the Angolan people from Ulume,protagonist of the novel and representative figure of tradition amid the threat of rupture of this heritage. In this narrativewe will consider the indispensability of memory as a symbol of resistance and perpetuation of culture, recovering theAngolan legacy based on the revival of inherited and lived stories. In line with this study, we will bring as theoreticalcontributions the following scholars: Paul Ricoeur (2007), Michael Pollak (1992), Maurice Halbwachs (2003), JeanChevalier (2018), and others. We will go through memory by rescuing the objects and places that incite the process ofremembrance of the protagonist and other characters who will assist in the recount of the civil war in Angola.