As intersecções culturais da literatura de Ondjaki

Abstract

This text proposes a reading that intersects literary and cultural codes in order to analyze how childhood and society are configured in the short story “A televisão mais bonita do mundo”, published in the book Os da minha rua (2015), by Ondjaki. Methodologically, the approach is based on the axis “contextualizing apprehension”, by Kwame Appiah (2006), discussed in the social sphere of an “interpretive community”, a term articulated by Stuart Hall (2013), whose position of “African forms of self-inscription”, idea by Achille Mbembe (2001), opens the literary text to the author’s interpretative strategy as a reader of coloniality. From these reflections, we are interested in identifying how the passages of Ndalu, narrator-character, through the spaces of the house, school, and street, intend a process of historical revision of texts that question the European coloniality. Therefore, we hope to draw a map of this review through the imagination of the child character who projects, in respect of silenced memories, a learning experience for an Angolan identity in negotiation with the traumas of colonization.