LEVANTA VÔO SIRIPIPI

Comingo from Certeza and belonging to Diáspora, ORlanda Amarílis does notmake concessions when dealing with national identity and self cultural orientation what is stressed in the images of the foreign space as well as the images of the foreigner in the Archipelago. This article proposes a reflection on those images where text and cultural context amalgamate in the construction of an identity process, within a discursive practice which ruptures the pact of Realism celebrated above all with alterity in order to unveil the self through mythic tradition where he individual assumes the colective character. This is now the author's work published during the post-independence period is inscribed in the culture, in the History and in the social evolution of an Archipelago which makes slaves and of a foreigner who interferes and puts people in a marginal condition, thus reinforcing nationalism.