NEW PUBLICATION

ARTICLE BY CIAC COLLABORATOR PUBLISHED IN CONVERGÊNCIA LUSÍADA MAGAZINE

The magazine Convergência Lusíada recently published in volume 32, nº45, an article by CIAC collaborator José Paulo Cruz Pereira, entitled “Mia Couto: Representação e subalternidade em Mulheres de cinza” [“Mia Couto: representation and subalternity in Women in gray”].

The article focuses on the representation of subalternity in Mulheres de Cinza [Women of Grey], by Mia Couto, and the implications of meaning of the complex process of naming the narrator voice of Imani, transversal to the fictional plot of the novels of the trilogy As areias do Imperador [The Sands of the Emperor]. It starts by considering the double meaning of “representation” in Can the Subaltern Speak? by Gayatri Spivak, analyzes the how it aligns the assumptions of O 18 do Brumário de Louis Bonaparte [Louis Bonaparte’s The 18th Brumaire] by Karl Marx’s and A Questão Meridional [The Southern Question] by Antonio Gramsci’s  in describing his concept of the subaltern. In addition, “Mia Couto: Representação e subalternidade em Mulheres de cinza” analyzes how, in Women of Grey,   his configuration of the subaltern as excluded is projected. It does it by discovering both the instance of the neutral, which Maurice Blanchot speaks of – in L’entretien infinit… -, and that of singularity, as Spivak unfolds it in An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization – read as invested in one of the fables with which Mia Couto allegorizes them.

Convergência Lusíada aims especially at disseminating Portuguese literature and culture in Brazil and establishing a space for inter-institutional and interdisciplinary dialogue around the Portuguese language. With many issues released, the journal has published studies by Portuguese and Brazilian (but not only) researchers that greatly contribute to the exchange of ideas between Portugal and Brazil, especially.