Boaventura Cardoso’s Eco-critical Gaze in Margens e Travessias

Abstract

This article takes into account the particularity of “geography also [as the protagonist of] the novelistic construction” in the novel Margens e Travessias by Boaventura Cardoso, intending to analyze its eco-critical perspective. The “critical” of the word is highlighted, which established itself as an enunciator of a set of theories about the relationship between literature and nature to emphasize the sharpness of the narrative gaze in a book in which little or nothing escapes in the path through the History of Angola, in which the reader is immersed. Through the course of rivers and descriptions of nature, linked to a world prior to colonialism and, consequently, to capitalist exploitation, the book’s true intention is to re-write History and better understand the past, inviting the reader to have attention to the mutual dialogue between man and nature, between dominator and dominated, between oppressor and victim, in view of a possible policy of conciliation in the future of Angola.