Paisagens da infância em os da minha rua

Abstract

In this article we seek an understanding of the emotional relationships between childhood and space in the work Os da minha rua (2007), by the Angolan writer Ondjaki. From the meanings acquired by the house, by the street and by the school environments through which transits the small Ndalu, the narrator recreates the places of his childhood and the implications of civil war context in the landscape of the city and in the his inner landscape. He organizes this landscapes in a lyrical prose that mixes biographical and fictional. In these places also enroll yourself some characters who affectively mark the author’s childhood like his grandmother Agnette, the Cuban teachers and the Charlita girl, whom the narrator cultivates a special affection. For this approach, we find justification in studies on the relationship between space and human perception in the field of humanistic Geography, as Tuan (1983), the phenomenology of Bachelard (1988) and literary studies.