Writing and testimony in 'O livro dos guerrilheiros', by Luandino Vieira

• Main Author: Terezinha Taborda Moreira
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2019-06-01
• Series: Abril
• Subjects: Escrita de si; Testemunho; Literatura Angolana.
• Online Access: http://www.revistaabril.uff.br/index.php/revistaabril/article/view/541

This study focused on the strategies adopted by the narrator to tell the experienced in the text O livro dos guerrilheiros – 2nd edition from the De rios velhos e guerrilheiros (2009) Trilogy, written by Luandino Vieira. The hypothesis of this study is that the purpose of narrating the experienced might be thought as a type of “self-writing”, on Judith Butler’s perspective. The “self-writing” is the narrator’s choose to tell his story and the story of the guerrillas fighter imbued with an ethical value that involves a commitment to himself, to the other and to the History of Angola.