TY - JOUR TI - Memórias de um cárcere voluntário. José Eduardo Agualusa, Teoria geral do esquecimento AU - Wolny, Anna TI - Memórias de um cárcere voluntário. José Eduardo Agualusa, Teoria geral do esquecimento AB - Memories from a voluntary prison. A general theory of oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa The paper presents an analysis of A general theory of oblivion, a novel by José Eduardo Agualusa, in light of the Portuguese postcolonial paradigm, specifically by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. It presents the trajectory of the protagonist, Ludovica, as a hybrid of a representant of the past, colonial tradition and a habitant of the emerging postcolonial reality. Agualusa shows two strategies of dealing with those conditions and, in a creative effort of constructing a new Angolan identity, positions himself on the side of the memory perpetuated through time. VL - Tom 21 (2021) IS - Tom 21, Numer 2 PY - 2021 SN - 1732-8705 C1 - 2084-3917 SP - 115 EP - 124 DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.21.012.14067 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/memorias-de-um-carcere-voluntario-jose-eduardo-agualusa-teoria-geral-do-esquecimento KW - José Eduardo Agualusa KW - A general theory of oblivion KW - Portuguese post-colonialism KW - memory