A “syndrome” named for this city is used to explain the mysterious collapse of buildings in this city’s Kinaxixi Square due to corruption in the magical realist novel The Return of the Water Spirit. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city whose “utopia generation” of the 1970s derives from the ironic title of a novel about this city’s disillusioned intelligentsia, written by a Marxist guerrilla under a pen name meaning “eyelash.”
ANSWER: Luanda [accept Luanda syndrome or síndrome de Luanda] (The author of The Return of the Water Spirit and The Utopia Generation is Pepetela.)
[10m] Ludo isolates herself from society by walling herself up inside her apartment in Luanda for three decades on the brink of Angolan independence in this 2012 novel by José (“zhoo-ZAY”) Eduardo Agualusa.
ANSWER: A General Theory of Oblivion [or Teoria Geral do Esquecimento]
[10e] In a story from José Luandino Vieira’s Luuanda, a duck thief meets two men in one of these places. A place of this type provides the setting of Athol Fugard’s play The Island.
ANSWER: prisons [or jails]
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