religião; cultura; Ginga Mbandi; Angola; A Rainha Ginga; José
Eduardo Agualusa
Name: SORIBA DIAKHABY
Publication date: 12/04/2023
Examining board:
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| JOAO CLAUDIO ARENDT | Advisor |
Summary: This dissertation is based on Angolan fiction literature, working with the narrative A Rainha Ginga (2014), by José Eduardo Agualusa, as a research object. Starting from a critical reading of the narrative, the general objective is to investigate the problematic of
Portuguese Catholicism and Angolan culture in the colonial period in Angola. The specific objectives are: to analyze the contact between Portuguese Catholicism and the traditional religious (spiritual) culture in the ancient kingdoms (Congo, Matamba and
Ndongo) of central Africa represented in A Rainha Ginga; analyze the historical path of Rainha Ginga, female protagonist and leader not only of the Ambundu people, but of several ethnic groups and peoples through the bias of historiography, literature and the
novel of Agualusa; highlight the importance of Angolan fiction literature in the process of building cultural and traditional identity based on ancestral values. To achieve the proposed general objective, this work was divided into three chapters, which relate to the
specific objectives already listed. Initially, in the first chapter, the theoretical framework is presented with a bibliographic review on the different definitions or/and meanings of the concepts of religion and culture, based, respectively, on sociology and classical
anthropology. The second chapter focuses on the presentation and analysis of the story of the person/character Rainha Ginga Mbandi. Finally, in the third chapter, it analyzes the issue of religion and Angolan culture in the novel A Rainha Ginga, in which Agualusa fictionalizes the experience of two peoples with different religions and cultures, namely, Europeans and Angolans. The theoretical foundation is based on the studies of the authors José Pereira Coutinho (2012), Gilberto Velho and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (1978), João Antonio Montecúcculo de Cavazzi (1965), Inocência Mata (2012, 2014), Flavia Maria de Carvalho ( 2011), Wagner Roy (2010), Alberto Oliveira Pinto; Maurício Wadman (2018); Dennys Cuche (1999), Clifford Geertz (2008), Homi K. Bhabha (1998),
Jame Hoke Sweet (2007), Jéssica Perreira Gonçalves (2019); José Rivair Macedo (2013); Roland Walter (2010), Mariana Brack de Fonseca (2012; 2018); Ana Claudia Santos Camerano (2018), Edgleice Santos da Silva (2018) etc.
