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Dissertation - Coggle Diagram

- - - - not racially, but in rules that govern life
    - - Mourao - left Portugal
        
        is he losing sight of reality?
        
        belongs to another place, place he loves doesn't exist - liminal space
        
        fails to transition to understanding magic trads
    - - inner monologue reveals insecurity
    - - elderly - cut off, isolated, forgotten, disrespected, represent old forms of knowledge
      - city - modern, respected, globalised / corrupt, neocolonial
    - - new age is for people like Izi
      - acceptance of fusion of knowledges
      - no questioning of truth behind dreams, love, life
  - - - like Izi - he had a conflict of postcolonial subject
  - - - Navaia's life story
      - account of the murder
      - is there an objective truth in storytelling?
      - forgotten stories - marginal peoples
      - notebook where he records their confessions
      - truth vs. lies
        
        Marta - gateway for truth
  - - - long for water because water has no past/memories
        
        LMN transforms into water every night to recover from her trauma/past - no means to heal outside/in life
  - - - man-child (Navaia)
      - wife/daughter, orphan/widow (LMN)
      - mulatto
- - - - evocation of truth masked as madness
    - - muteness/language
      - reoccuring theme of speaking a language that [x] can't understand
  - - - means of escape
      - "Mariamar, came from the river"
      - resolution/reparation
    - - means of escape
  - - - past dictates the present - sense of fate (esp. for women)
    - - strong sense of Kulumani and its people being disillusioned and left behind by war
      - also interesting how women are implicated in this, but Hanifa mentions that 'their war' is more timeworn and neverending
      - lost people's humanity
    - - biblical references - both for kulumani's creation and Archie's childhood stories
        
        sense of the timelessness and universality of this tale
      - oral tradition
        
        quotes that preface each chapter - lots are proverbial
      - the journalist (as Mia?) what is his role in this? does he represent the new system of integrating magic and fact into language
      - myth/legend
        
        tale of Ra and Sekmut