A recepção crítica de - nós matamos o cão tinhoso de Luís Bernardo Honwana

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the critical reception process of Nos killed dog tinhoso, a book of short stories by Luís Bernardo Honwana. Its objective is to demonstrate the path of the work until its canonization, that is, to demonstrate the way in which certain factors contributed to the work under study becoming part of the canon of Mozambican Literature. In order to fulfill this objective, we chose to work with the following theoretical concepts: expectation horizon, implicit reader, theme and horizon structure, and canon. The work is divided into three chapters. The first chapter presents the historical-literary framework of the work, and also contains the following points: motivation and importance of the study; problem and hypothesis; methodology; literature review and corpus presentation. The second chapter introduces data analysis. This chapter is divided into two major moments that correspond to two major factors: polemics and critical reception. The third chapter presents the general conclusion of our study