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| Title: | The significance of the theme of childhood in classic works written in Portuguese by African writers |
| Author: | Moser, Gerald M. |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | Présence africaine |
| Issue: | 155 |
| Pages: | 123-149 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | children literature Portuguese language |
| Abstract: | This article explores the theme of childhood in a number of works written by fifteen prominent lusophone African authors, in the context of the social and political circumstances prevailing at the time of publication. These authors have given very different meanings to the theme of childhood. However, the image of childhood as an idyllic Arcadia is surprisingly rare in their writings. What they suggest is rather a mixed bag of good and bad experience, if not downright unhappiness because the joys of childhood have been cut short by orphanhood, disease, early deaths, poverty, misery, starvation, loss of home, forced migration and so forth. The authors dealt with are, in chronological order: Eugénio Tavares (1867-1930), Jorge Barbosa (1902-1971), Baltasar Lopes (b. 1917), all from Cape Verde, Noémia de Sousa (b. 1926), from Mozambique, António Aurélio Gonçalves (1901-1984), from Cape Verde, Arnaldo Santos (b. 1935), Ernesto Lara Filho (1932-1977), Alda Lara (1930-1962), Mário António Fernandes de Oliveira (1934-1969), Geraldo Bessa Victor (b. 1917), all from Angola, Manuel Lopes (b.1907), from Cape Verde, José Vieira da Graça (b.1935) and Pepetela (Artur Carlos Pestana, b. 1941) from Angola, José Craveirinha (b. 1922) and (Bernardo) Mia Couto (b. 1955), from Mozambique. Notes, ref., sum. in French. |
