Histories and memories of resistence in the novel A casa velha das margens, written by Arnaldo Santos

Abstract

When we read the novel A casa velha das margens (1999), we follow the protagonist Emidio Mendonça, son of a Portuguese settler and a natural black earth, in a journey from the capital Luanda to the Dondo region, symbolic territory of local traditions survive. We also return to the nineteenth century, historical moment when the natural land and those who identified themselves with it began to use the writing with more vehemence to defend their own interests. In this text we will see how the recovery of a resistance period, through the fiction, allows us to launch possible and relevant reflections on the roles of memory and its contribution to the time when the book was edited.