Um “local da mulher” fora do tempo: Metamorfoses do feminino na poesia de Jorge Barbosa

Inocência Mata

doi:10.21471/jls.v1i2.118

Inocência Mata Universidade de Lisboa/University of Macau

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v1i2.118

Keywords: Cape Verdean literature, poetry, women, history, nation

Abstract

At a time (i.e., the years of colonial fascism) when, conditioned by ideological and cultural urgency, literature served “strategic” functions that reached beyond purely textual considerations, the poetry of Jorge Barbosa, much of which came to be known only with the publication of his Obra Poética (2002), persistently conjures up feminine presences to articulate concerns produced by the poet’s “soundings” of the Cape Verdean landscape. Within this signifier, woman, which emerges through various forms of unfolding, are concentrated many of Barbosa’s loci of reflexive interrogation.

Author Biography

Inocência Mata, Universidade de Lisboa/University of Macau

Inocência Mata is a Professor at University of Lisbon and University of Macao, where she is deputy head of the Portuguese Department and Director of CIELA (Centro de Investigação e Estudos Luso-Asiáticos/Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies). Her recent publications include: Laços de memória & outros ensaios sobre literatura angolana (2006), Polifonias insulares: cultura e literatura de São Tomé e Príncipe (2010), Francisco José Tenreiro: as múltiplas faces de um intelectual (2010), A Rainha Nzinga Mbandi: história, memória e mito (2012), A literatura africana e a crítica pós-colonial – reconversões (2013).