Abstract
This artice seeks to demonstrate how Cabo Verdean author G. T. Didial’s O Estado Impenitente da Fragilidade and J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg revisit an ancient Western mythological tradition (Abraham and Isaac; Oedipus and Laius; Herod and the Massacre of the Innocents). I focus on and how, through a complex rewriting process, both narratives discuss not only the tense relationship between fathers and sons but also the complex relationship between contemporary literatures of post-colonial African cultural systems and the literatures of Western cultural systems
Highlights
This article seeks to demonstrate how Cabo Verdean author G
Since the 1960s, Vário published a fragmentary poetic anthology titled Exemplo(s), while Tiofe organized his work into three books, the Livros de Notcha
I focus on how both works address questions related to the breakdown of the relationship between fathers and sons
Summary
This article seeks to demonstrate how Cabo Verdean author G. As in Didial’s novel, The Master of Petersburg presents a non-univocal fictional universe shaped by violence and power conflicts, chaos, exile, and wanderings.
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