Abril (Dec 2018)

Features of violence in “Stress” by Lília Momplé

  • Franciane Conceição da Silva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff2018n21a533
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 21
pp. 181 – 192

Abstract

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In this paper I examine the remarks around “Stress”, a tale retrieved from the book Os olhos da cobra verde (1997), by Lília Momplé, a Mozambican writer. In this narrative, Momplé presents the story of characters who, as a consequence of the civil war in Mozambique, are changing, being represented, at the same time, as victims and tormentors . The analysis of the narrative strategies used by Momplé to represent a violence that strip the characters constitutes the focus of our investigation.

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