The fantastic as a tool of anti-colonialist discourse in Saramago’s Stone Raft and Pepetela’s Kianda’s Desire

Authors

  • Zak Kane Montgomery

Keywords:

Pepetela, Saramago, Fantastic literature, Neo-colonialism

Abstract

This article does a comparative reading of the fantastic elements of The Stone Raft and Kianda’s Desire as a response to the hegemonic neo-colonial/capitalist discourse of Northern Europe and the United States in Portugal and Angola during a period in which both “inferior” countries were rebuilding after long periods of socio-political uncertainty. The text gives examples of the anti-colonialist discourse in the two novels through the reactions and behaviors of the protagonists in the face of fantastic events and, simultaneously, in response to the imposition of foreign socio-cultural norms.

Author Biography

Zak Kane Montgomery

Doutorando em Literatura Portuguesa. Professor de espanhol e português no Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, Estados Unidos.

Published

2022-09-16

How to Cite

Montgomery, Z. K. (2022). The fantastic as a tool of anti-colonialist discourse in Saramago’s Stone Raft and Pepetela’s Kianda’s Desire. Identidade!, 18(1), 103–111. Retrieved from http://198.211.97.179/periodicos_novo/index.php/Identidade/article/view/1904