Abstract
This article explores the representations of refugees and stateless persons in Rodrigo Leal de Carvalho’s novels: Requiem para Irina Ostrakoff (1993) and A Mãe (2001). Grounded on the theories of Hall, Leerssen, Said, Arendt and Hamon, among others, our aim is to analyse the way in which the condition and identitity of stateless refugees are represented in a realist discourse by creating credible characters and by somehow echoing the “human comedy” (along Balzac’s lines), which has been transposed to Macau, a small and distant place.
Keywords:
refugees; nation; exile; identity; Macau; realism