As prendisajens poéticas em Ondjaki: dimensões da metáfora xão

Abstract

This dissertation analyses the metaphor dimensions of the word chão/xão in the literary work "Há prendisajens com o xão " (2002) from the Angolan writer Ondjaki, with the goal to summarize the author s poetic and makes clear how the corpus of the poems are inserted in a literary system of countries with Portuguese language and also dialogues with others writers. The investigation had developed in four chapters. In chapter 1, we established how Ondjaki production is inserted in a literary system, seen as a macro system (Abdala, 1989), we attempted to point out some authors and the theme 'land' to locate the work in a time-space of the Angolan Literature History, that is, showing who are the "others" that precede him. In the chapter 2, was delicated for the analysis of the corpus, epigraphs and dedicatories in view of the construction of the metaphoric though of word "xão", based on studies of Valèry (1999) Fenollosa (1994) and Pound (1997). In chapter 3, " Learning to be ground: the language", we attempted to reveal the poet procedures to build up a crioulè language and its malleabilities, making evident the aspects of the orality (quimbundu subtract, for instance) used as resources for the construction of paronomasia, alliteration and works-assembly. In chapter 4, The others of the land , we used Glissant concept of rhizome (2005) to conclude how the resources raised previously lead to the construction of identities, of a "xão" as a poetic land without frontiers, through the relationship with the contemporary poetry universe in Portuguese Language