A Reading of Four Short Stories from Goa: Across the Linguistic and Religious Divide

Cielo Griselda Festino

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2025.e106501

Autores

Cielo Griselda Festino Universidade Paulista https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2862-0554

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2025.e106501

Palavras-chave:

Goa, Significant geographies, Multilingual culture, Literary clusters, Reading together

Resumo

The aim of this article is to consider the literature of Goa, former Portuguese colony in India (1510-1961), where four main languages are spoken: Konkani; Marathi; Portuguese, and English. This plurilingual society not only deconstruct the monolingual national literary canon but also call for a different way of approaching and reading literary narratives, in terms of literary clusters (Mohanty 2011) that belong to the same “Significant Geography” (Orsini 2015; Laachir at al. 2018). In this context, I will consider four Goan short stories that criticize the religious divide in Goa: “Shiva, at Play” [Shiva brincando] (2022), written in Portuguese by Maria Elsa da Rocha; “The Crucifix on the Chain” [Gallyantulo khuris] (2015), in Konkani by Prakesh Parienkar; “Says Kabira” [Kahat Kabira] (2018), in Marathi by Vithal L. Gawas; “Saibinn” (2008), in English by José Lourenço.

Biografia do Autor

Cielo Griselda Festino, Universidade Paulista

Doutora na área de Estudos Literários em Língua Inglesa. Atualmente, estou fazendo um pós-doutorado na UFMG na área de estudos pós-coloniais.

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