A Reading of The Gift of the Holy Cross by Lino Leitão
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2763-650X.i4p147-164Keywords:
colonials, nationalists, dialogism, centripetal and centrifugal forcesAbstract
The purpose of this paper is a reading of the novel The Gift of the
Holy Cross by the Goan writer Lino Leitão in which he makes a critique of
the old Portuguese colonials as well as the Goan Nationalist Movement to
finally favor a Gandhian policy of non-violence. The theoretical frame of
our discussion considers Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theory of the novel.
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