LABYRINTHINE EXPERIENCES IN PEPETELA’S NOVEL A GERAÇÃO DA UTOPIA
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https://doi.org/10.14393/TES-v2n1-2019-51072Keywords:
Labyrinth, Angolan Literature, MetafictionAbstract
A recurrent image in contemporary metafictions, the labyrinth alegorises the post-modern experience. The particularities of this structure – fragmentation, discontinuity, multiplicity and infinitude – and the sensations related to the labyrinthine experience – disorientation, uncertainty, anguish, ambiguity – keep a narrow relation to the concept of metafiction. This essay aims to analyse images of labyrinths built in the novel A geração da utopia, from the Angolan writer Pepetela. Considering that the labyrinth keeps an intrinsical ambiguity both in its physical structure and in its symbolic field, this paper also intends to present a reflection about the labyrinthine experience as an allegory of metafiction. Theories related to fiction and metafiction developed by Linda Hutcheon and Vilém Flusser will be articulated to discuss some aspects of metafictional literature identified in the novel, as intertextuality and the multiplicity of “truths”.
Keywords: Labyrinth; Angolan Literature; Metafiction
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