Colonialism and identities in transit in Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2175-3180.v16i31p189-211

Keywords:

Portuguese literature, Postcolonial literature, Cultural identity

Abstract

Considering the large population flow between Portugal and the former Portuguese colonies after the end of Portuguese domain over the African colonies, the existence of complex and conflicting identities, such as that of the returnees, has been accentuated in contemporary times. In view of this finding, the objective is to analyze the influence of Portuguese colonization in Africa in the construction of the identities of Cartola and Aquiles, characters from Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. In the movement of leaving the colony and going to the metropolis, crises linked to belonging and identity are accentuated as aspects of the Portuguese colonial imaginary are illuminated. For this purpose, authors who establish the relationship between identity, literature and history, such as Eduardo Lourenço and Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, are analyzed. In this way, it is observed that the life condition imposed on the returnees demarcates an epic in reverse, which allows us to conclude that the marks of Portuguese exploration are planted beyond territorial limits and demarcate subjective territories.

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Author Biographies

  • Júlia Beralde Gonçalves, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
    Graduada em Letras/Português e Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia.
  • Português, Português

    Rodrigo Valverde Denubila is an Adjunct Professor at the Nucleus of Literary Theory and Literatures of the Portuguese Language (NUCLIT) at the Institute of Letters and Linguistics (ILEEL) at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). He was a substitute professor at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM). He taught classes as a visiting professor at the Paulista State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP-Araraquara) and at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). Doctor (direct doctorate) in Literary Studies from UNESP-Araraquara/Brazil. He obtained a PDSE / CAPES scholarship to develop part of his PhD at the University of Porto (Portugal). He developed a thesis on the Portuguese novelist Agustina Bessa-Luís, prioritizing the study of the novel as an open encyclopedia. To this end, he worked with the association between memory (History), reason (Philosophy) and aesthetics (Literature). At the same institution, he carried out postdoctoral research investigating the relationships between modernity and postmodernity, modernism and postmodernism. He works in the areas of Theory of Literature, Portuguese Literature and African Literatures in Portuguese, in which he has published articles, book chapters and books. He also serves as executive editor of the magazine Itinerários.

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Published

2024-06-24

Issue

Section

Dossiê Literatura e Mito: história, memória e identidade - Parte 2

How to Cite

Gonçalves, J. B., & Português, P. (2024). Colonialism and identities in transit in Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. Revista Desassossego, 16(31), 189-211. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2175-3180.v16i31p189-211