O diálogo das escritas em ualalapi e os leões não dormem esta noite

Abstract

The present dissertation is a study that aims to demonstrate that the works Ualalapi, by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, and Os leões não dormem tonight, by Guilherme de Melo, are built on the basis of a dialogism. The choice of these two works was based on the fact that both address the same theme, which is Gungunhana and the Gaza Empire. For this purpose, we followed a methodology that consisted of intertextual analysis, which allowed us to interpret the different ways of approaching the two authors to the theme. We demonstrated throughout the analysis that this dialogism occurs at three levels, namely: o from orality to writing, the discourse of History to fiction and that of biblical discourse to fiction. In Ualalapi, dialogism is mainly based on one of the figures of intertextuality, amplification, understood as "the transformation of an original text by developing its semantic virtuality", through which the work guides us to different readings. Indeed, through amplification, Ualalapi dialogues with different types of discourses, either using the sources of colonial history, biblical quotations and, sometimes, the sources of oral tradition, which serve as a motto whose meaning is always developed in the tales that precede. The lions don't sleep tonight is also built on the basis of dialogism, either through an intertextual process that consists of the insertion (coupling) of texts of a different nature (letters, family and officers, extracts from reports, newspaper articles, etc. ., which corroborate the narrator's opinion, as well as aspects that refer the reader to both African and Western cultural universes, which in the context of his text generate new meanings. While Ungulani uses the short narrative, the short story, which allows him to get closer to the register of orality, Guilherme de Melo uses the long narrative, the novel, with a tendency towards reported discourse, thus insinuating the models of registration that each of the authors privileges in their work. On the other hand, while Ualalapi demystifies some current versions of History (colonial and revolutionary) about Gungunhana, presenting him as a monster, Lions do not sleep tonight recovers the heroic image of the Emperor of Gaza, presenting him dressed in dignity. and humanism. These different positions on the same reality have to do with the ideological values ​​that each of the authors intends to convey through their work. Ungulani's work points to a historical past that was the Gaza Empire and projects itself to the present in which he lives, from the first years of Mozambique's independence characterized, similarly to the Gaza Empire, by the despotism and misdeeds committed by the regime of Communist inspiration then instituted. Guilherme de Melo is also part of that past, and presents us with a Gungunhana not concerned with the events of the past, assuming them as a result of divine providence, but with the establishment of a bridge of understanding between the Mozambican and Portuguese peoples. And the pillars of this bridge are the two protagonists of Chaimite in 1895: Mouzinho de Albuquerque and Gungunhana. For this reason, Ualalapi's harsh speech, which emphasizes the despotic character of the Emperor of Gaza and the violent atmosphere of reality to which he refers, is opposed to the complacent speech of Les lions do not sleep tonight, which softens the mistakes of the past by seeking to create a harmonious coexistence between the ex-colonized and the ex-colonizer (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA )