Summary
Ruy Alberto Duarte Gomes de Carvalho (22 April 1941 – 12 August 2010) was an Angolan author and filmmaker, whose work, which over more than three decades spanned poetry, metafiction, and anthropology, focused on the Kuvale people of the southern Angola.[1] Writing for Carvalho's entry in the Dictionary of African Biography (2012), Livia Apa commented that even if "In their complexity, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's works are some of the most interesting and original works in contemporary Portuguese literature. Curiously, in spite of its importance, his work is rarely translated or taught abroad. Only a few of his books have been recently published in Brazil, and most of his films have disappeared, or been lost or badly damaged."[2] Since 2016, some of the films he directed between 1975 and 1989 can be watched online at RDC Virtual.
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ruy Alberto Duarte Gomes de Carvalho 22 April 1941 Santarém, Portugal |
| Died | 12 August 2010 (aged 69) Swakopmund, Namibia |
| Resting place | Namib |
| Occupation | poet, writer, traveller, anthropologist, agriculturist, filmmaker |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Citizenship | Angolan |
| Education | Ph.M in Visual anthropology PhD in Ethnology and Social anthropology |
| Alma mater | School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences |
| Period | 1972–2010 |
Carvalho is highly influenced by the work of fellow Angolan writer José Luandino Vieira and by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa. Rosa's influence on Carvalho's work can be seem in the novel Desmedida (2006), whose narrative often overlaps with some of the Brazilian author's canon, including intertextual references to Rosa's novel Grande sertão: veredas (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands). The book Desmedida (Unmeasured) is deliberately divided between two-halves, but there's a "third half", the metafiction novel A terceira metade (2009), which is announced at the end of Desmedida and whose title echoes Rosa's short story A terceira margem do rio (The Third Bank of the River).[3]
In 2023, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho was posthumously awarded with an "Order of Civil Merit, 1st Degree" by the president of Angola.[4]
Bibliography edit
- Chão de oferta (1972), poetry
- A decisão da idade (1976), poetry
- Como se o mundo não tivesse leste: estórias do sul e seca (1977), short stories
- Exercícios de crueldade (1978), poetry
- Sinais misteriosos... já se vê... (1979), poetry
- O camarada e a câmara: cinema e antropologia para além do filme etnográfico (1980), essay
- Ondula, savana branca (1982), poetry
- Lavra paralela (1987), poetry
- Hábito da terra (1988), poetry
- Ana a Manda: os filhos da rede (1989), essay
- Memória de tanta guerra (1992), poetry
- Ordem de esquecimento (1997), poetry
- Aviso à navegação (1997), essay
- A câmara, a escrita e a coisa dita...: fitas, textos e paletras (1997), essay
- Vou lá visitar pastores (1999), essay
- Lavra reiterada (2000), poetry
- Observação directa (2000), poetry
- Os papéis do inglês (2000), metafiction
- Os Kuvale na história, nas guerras e nas crises: artigos e comunicações 1994–2001 (2002), essay
- Actas da maianga (2003), essay
- Lavra: poesia reunida 1970–2000, poetry
- As paisagens propícias (2005), metafiction
- Desmedida: Luanda, São Paulo, São Francisco e volta (2006), travel literature
- A terceira metade (2009), metafiction
References edit
- ^ Porto, Nuno (2007). "From Exhibiting to Installing Ethnography: Experiments at the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, 1999–2005". In MacDonald, Sharon; Basu, Paul (eds.). Exhibition Experiments. Blackwell Publishing. p. 189. ISBN 9780470695364.
- ^ Apa, Livia (2012). Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 39. ISBN 9780195382075.
- ^ Miceli, Sonia (2019). Diálogos com Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (in Portuguese). Lisbon: University of Lisbon. p. 100. ISBN 978-989-20-8194-6.
- ^ "Presidente da República condecora diversas personalidades que lutaram pela independência e paz". Jornal de Angola (in Portuguese). 1 April 2023. Retrieved 15 April 2023.