Ethnic-Cultural Tensions in Cape Verde Literature: Female Spatialities in “Liberdade Adiada”, by Dina Salústio

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas Gomes, Paulo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Pinheiro, Vanessa Riambau
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Literatura e Autoritarismo
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/LA/article/view/43160
• topic: Cape Verdean literature; Ethnic-cultural tensions; Dina Salústio; Female spatialities; Literatura cabo-verdiana; Tensões étnico-culturais; Dina Salústio; Espacialidades femininas.

Our research starts from a succinct exhibition of Cape Verdean literature to arrive at contemporary literature, from the analysis of a short story by Dina Salústio. Aspects such as independence were fundamental for the reconfiguration of the island imaginary, which broadened its themes: from the territorial limits and the Portuguese domain of yesteryear to the most intimate spaces of its subjects. Through a bibliographic and critical approach, our objective, from the initial explanation made, is to understand the tensions peculiar to Cape Verde's ethnic and cultural scene of today, opening for dialogue on the representation of the female in the short story “Delayed Freedom”, of the work Warm were the nights (2019). We corroborate the investigations of APPIAH (2007), FANON (1983), GOMES (1993, 2000, 2008), LARANJEIRA (1995), LOBO (2016), among other theoretical contributions to deepen our arguments.