%0 Journal Article
%T Memories from a voluntary prison. A general theory of oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
%A Wolny, Anna
%J Romanica Cracoviensia
%V Volume 21 (2021)
%R 10.4467/20843917RC.21.012.14067
%N Volume 21, Issue 2
%P 115-124
%K José Eduardo Agualusa, A general theory of oblivion, Portuguese post-colonialism, memory
%@ 1732-8705
%D 2021
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/memorias-de-um-carcere-voluntario-jose-eduardo-agualusa-teoria-geral-do-esquecimento
%X 
	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.