Klára Trsková

African Lusophone cinemas from the postclassical narratology perspective

Národní filmový archiv, Charles university, Czech Republic

The paper examines the narratology strategies used in the fictional works of cinematographic industries in Mozambic, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Angola produced after 1975 (which became the year of the declaration of independence of all remaining Portuguese colonial territories). The paper uses the theoretical approach of postclassical narratology, more specifically the concept of “disnarration” of Gerald Prince (those passages or elements in a narrative that consider what did not or does not take place) later on elaborated by the theoretician Robyn Warhol who focuses on the “unnarratable”: the passages that are – for various reasons – not worthy of narrating.

Klára Trsková (1992) is a translator from Portuguese, a film curator at NFA, she is a doctoral candidate at Charles University in Romance literatures. She writes and gives lectures about the literary and cinematographic productions of African Lusophone countries. In the past two years she visited universities in São Tomé, Bissau, Praia, Maputo and Mindelo where she conducted her research.