Escritas indeléveis em veredas distópicas: manifestações de identidade e subjetividade na obra poética de Conceição Lima

Abstract

The current master’s thesis aims to study the poetic work of Conceição Lima,a writer from São Tomé and Príncipe, under the readings’ perspective of five main authors that will guide the entire analytical axis of the work. It is intended to launch a questioning regard on the hegemonic discourses acting on the daily reality of underdeveloped countries, so as to investigate whether the subaltern subject has a voice in the work of Conceição Lima, hencing the female black subject. Starting with Gayatri Spivak (2014), the spirit of nationality is understood through the anguish comprised in memories of anti-colonial struggles.along with an observation of a Western world in crisis. It is proposed to look closely into the merging lieus of cultural multiplicities that contribute to renegotiating experiences, on the purpose of explore how black women's writings redesign issues concerning identities, especially when these are, according to Carole Boyce Davies (1994), diasporic writings. From Stuart Hall (2003), the concepts of nation and nationality will be scrutinized under a reflection on multicultural, transnational and diasporic identities, which derive from a social, political and historical construction, capable of expressing, through artistic production, a search for freedom , cultural citizenship and autonomy. An analysis will be performed over the way a poet self-defines in the midst of cultural multiplicities in diaspora movements, which enables the poet to turn a skeptical look on his homeland, at the same time as it raises the possibility of symbolically creating new communities, once the idea of diasporic identity, for Wendy Walters (2005), is more than a literary performance. It is, mainly, a political act. In the multicultural society, the subject becomes a hybrid, and the dominant and supposedly homogenizing discourses start being disputed. Therefore, this why it is unsustainable, nowadays, to think of a national identity as pure and unique in nature, as the world is creolized and unexpected cultural and linguistic microclimates are created. Places where repercussion of the overlapping cultures is abrupt and unpredictable, predominating in the totality-world, for Édouard Glissant (2005), the creole reality, constantly resembles with other origins and is capable of disclosing the essential Utopia - the missing people – in order to wreck certainties and to make the micro, the unique, the multiple and the inextricable emerge.