The Usefulness of Uselessness: Short Stories by José Eduardo Agualusa

Result code in IS VaVaI

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1405.14" target="_blank" >10.17507/jltr.1405.14</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Usefulness of Uselessness: Short Stories by José Eduardo Agualusa

Original language description

Estranhões & Bizarrocos: Stories for angels to sleep is a children’s and young adult book authored in Portuguese by Angolan writer JoséEduardo Agualusa. This paper posits that the book’s constituent short stories, initially intended for children, bear potential appeal to readers across all age brackets, situating themselves within the realm of ‘crossover fiction’. The book’s title resonates with the semantic sphere of the strange or peculiar. Within the narratives, ‘the stranger’ correlates with the child's fantastical world, but also aligns with the ‘foreigner’ inherent within these short stories. To unpack the representations of this ‘bizarre’ Other depicted in the stories, we employ literary imagology. This approach reveals the role of images curated by the narrators in constructing the implicit theme shared across the book’s 10 short stories. Lastly, the work provokes readers to ponder the value of seemingly usefulness things and situations—a reflection that carries its own meta-literary significance. © 2023, Academy Publication. All rights reserved.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Language Teaching and Research

ISSN

17984769

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1262 - 1269

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85170542540