Irene A'mosi: a Worldview of Peripheral Pasts of Violence, Stratification and Subalternity
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Irene A’Mosi, woman, spoken wordAbstract
Irene A’mosi is a young Angolan author whose poetics discusses the problems afflicting peripheral social neighborhoods of Luanda and their impact on the day-to-day routine of the Angolan youth. With special emphasis on the various forms of violence afflicting Angolan women in particular, A’mosi uses the spoken word to denounce issues ranging from domestic violence to women’s struggle to eke out a living and the word share is associated to women’s empowerment. This article establishes that her poems in Empoderamento Feminino (2022) visibilize the cry that echoes the voices of several generations of women systematically silenced, and the persistence of problems also represented in the writing of Angolan women writers since the country’s independence.
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Grant numbers PTDC/LLT-LES/0858/2021
