Childhood’s crossings: rites of initiation in "Campo Geral" by Guimarães Rosa and "Terra sonâmbula" by Mia Couto
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Portuguese Language Literatures, Brazilian Literature, Mozambican Literature, Guimarães Rosa, Mia Couto, rites of passage
Abstract
The present work analyses, under an anthropologic perspective, each one of the phases of the rites of passage lived by the protagonists of Guimarães Rosa’s Campo geral and Mia Couto’s Terra sonâmbula, trying to track in these texts the elements related to the traditional societies’ culture and trying to identify the meaning of the mentioned elements in the specific context of the authors. The two writers mix these primitive components with the regional culture and therefore achieve, starting also from the local representations, to reach a universal extent.Downloads
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2015-11-16
How to Cite
Guimarães Maia L. (2015). Childhood’s crossings: rites of initiation in "Campo Geral" by Guimarães Rosa and "Terra sonâmbula" by Mia Couto. Revista de Filología Románica, 31(2), 245-258. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFRM.2014.v31.n2.51075
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