Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Figurações/fulgurações do labirinto em "Migrações do Fogo", de Manuel Gusmão

2016; Issue: 34 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21747/16451112/litcomp34a24

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Rosa Maria Apel Mesquita,

Urban and sociocultural dynamics

Migrações do Fogo*, by Manuel Gusmão, may have had, at its origin, the issue regarding the current great migratory movements, although everything became more complexified with the emergence of a more intricate idea of migration, leading to another concept of migrant.This creation of ever changing worlds is also present in the work analysed, given that the "migrant" moves forward in a movement of wandering through the labyrinthine corridors, where crossing paths are crystallised memories of a whole literary, musical, plastic and, mainly, cinematographic tradition.The emphasis on the cinematographic memory creates an ekphrastic