Los secretos de la nación en Gloria y tormento del afrouruguayo Jo

Abstract

"This article analyses the novel Glory and Torment (2007) by writer Jorge Chagas as a critical fiction, that through fiction and the rewriting of history exposes the cracks in the State-nation story. The novel has a dual structure: the 1930s story of José Leandro Andrade, and the story of Clara Moreira, a journalist that writes Andrade’s biography in the present day. The secret regarding certain events featuring Andrade and the secrets that the journalist will discover about herself move the frame and intersect at various times. Both levels of the story constitute a critique to racism and expose the mechanisms that are at work in a society that cushions conflicts, such as the Uruguayan."