Transgenerational crises of identity: growing up as colonial subjects in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men and Luís Cardoso's The Crossing: a Story of East Timor
Despite belonging to distinct literary traditions, Luís Cardoso and V. S. Naipaul converge in their postcolonial reflection on what empires do to human beings in their books Crónica de uma Travessia and The Mimic Men. By focusing on the memories of two young islanders who grew up in colonies belongi...
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| Language: | eng |
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2011
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.34632/mathesis.2011.5193 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:ojs.revistas.ucp.pt:article/5193 |