The revolutionary imaginary of the 1960s in Tigre en papier, by Olivier Rolin and in A casa, by Pepetela

• Autor(a) principal: Romero Almada, Pablo Emanuel [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/208894
• topic: 1960's; Memory; Comparative Literature; Imaginary; Post-Colonialism

The revolutionary ideologies and utopias of the 1960s are a significant element for understanding the history of the present time and the memories of former participants, and their repercussions. The article discusses two memorialist and fictional narratives about those moments: Tigre en Papier, written by Olivier Rolin, and the excerpt A Casa, in A Geracao da Utopia, written by Pepetela. Based on a methodology of qualitative analysis and comparative literature interpretation, it debates the displacement of the revolutionary imaginary of the 1960s, from France and Portugal to the global South, to compose a Third-Worldist image of their aspirations and utopias. Finally, it concludes that besides the scenario of youth revolt carried out in those central countries, there would be a little-revealed memory, which would raise and idealize revolutionary places distant from Europe.