Open AccessFios de memória que atravessam o mar
Author(s) -
Simone Schmidt
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
elyra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2182-8954
DOI - 10.21747/21828954/ely16a4
Subject(s) - portuguese , witness , poetics , colonialism , poetry , humanities , reading (process) , race (biology) , art , gender studies , sociology , history , ethnology , literature , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
From a feminist and decolonial approach, this article intends to analyze poems by two Portuguese-speaking authors: the Brazilian Conceição Evaristo and Odete Semedo, from Guinea-Bissau. In this comparative reading, we seek to highlight aspects of gender and race that are manifested in the poetics of the two authors, who, through their writing, bear witness of violence and inequalities experienced as consequences of Portuguese colonial history.