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Authors: IOLANDA VASILE, CAROLINA PEIXOTO.
DOI: 10.24193/subbphilo.2017.4.15
Published Online: 2017-12-15
Published Print: 2017-12-29
pp. 185-198
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Love and War in The Plateau and the Steppe: Between Angolan Comrades, the Soviet Union and the Cold War. The Plateau and the Steppe, by Pepetela, looks at the story of Júlio, a white angolan from Huíla, that fights for the liberation of his country, and the mongol Sarangerel. The reader, smitten right away by the cover, dives into a beautiful love story, like the very title announces, “the real story of an impossible love”, that starts in 1960s in Angola, along with the outburst of the liberation movements, one year later. The story is brought up to present, after burning in the Russian cold, in the first lines of battle in Algeria and Angola and even in communist Cuba. Having this story as a background and focusing the analysis on the lives of African students in the former Soviet Union, we will explore the implications and importance of cultural exchanges for the establishment of long time relations between various national liberation movements and the former Soviet Union. Ultimately, we wish to question the essential role of memory in the processes of passage, transformation, and regulation of existing realities; imagining liberation beyond the independence.
Keywords: Pepetela, liberation movements, african students, memory, cultural exchanges.
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