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- Convenor:
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Hilarino da Luz
(CHAM-NOVA FCSH-UAc)
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- Location:
- B1 1.12
- Sessions:
- Friday 19 July, -
Time zone: Europe/Lisbon
Short Abstract:
In that sense, this panel intends to spark a discussion on the sea in Portuguese-speaking African Portuguese countries, mainly in literature.
Long Abstract:
The Ocean covers 71% of the surface of the Planet and has a huge influence on the structure and dynamics of most ecosystems. It is shaped as a vast aquatic image, upon which indirect languages of nature are reflected. The sounds of the ocean and the rhythms of the tide move as catalytic agents of submerged memories, sorting out the fragments entrusted to the collective, legendary, memorable unconscious (Secco, 2000). That tie to the collective memory makes it acquire subjective connotations, as an itinerary for a return to the origins and for the thematic polyphony in writers from different countries.
In this way, the sea is cosmically seen as a source of fecund energy, which makes it take on an important role in the different cartographies transcending the real borders of maps and promoting abstract places rolled out to literary, fantastic, and historical breadth. In the case of the intertwined relationships of lusophone countries, Celo Prudente considers that: "the geography, with the sea plexus in the main role, deeply sharpened the feeling for a life more distanced from institutional conformity, always doing so closer to the other, beyond one's own familiar institutional configurations" (AULP, 2015:233).
In that sense, this panel intends to spark a discussion on the sea in Portuguese-speaking African Portuguese countries, mainly in literature.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Friday 19 July, 2019, -Paper short abstract:
We will analyse the representation of the Indian Ocean in Mozambican poetry, mentioning a literary tradition that dates back to colonial period. In particular, we will analyse the relation between memory, identity and the Indian Ocean in Eduardo White's poetry.
Paper long abstract:
The aim of this proposal is to analyse the representation of the Indian Ocean in Mozambican poetry mentioning a literary tradition that dates back to colonial period. In particular, we will analyse the relation between memory, identity and the Indian Ocean in the poetry of Eduardo White, who published his first book Amar sobre o Índico in 1984.
Francisco Noa (2012), among other critics, has emphasized the importance of themes related to the Island of Mozambique and the Indian Ocean, which define part of the Mozambican cultural and identity space and contribute to the study of transnational vectors in the writing of some Mozambican poets. We will combine Literary and Cultural Studies with Indian Ocean Studies to demonstrate that Mozambican poetry reframes Indian Ocean imaginaries and reflects a process of transnational cultural interweaving.
This research is developed within the framework of Narrative of the Indian Ocean in the Lusophone Space (NILUS) Project funded by FCT (PTDC/CPC-ELT/4868/2014).
Paper short abstract:
This presentation aims at being a reflexion on forms of writing on the presence and memory of the sea in capverdian literature, from Eugénio Tavares (1867-1930) to José Luís Tavares.
Paper long abstract:
Capverdian literature was built between the land and the sea, developing its general corpus through a permanent quest of the role of the sea in identity and memory.
This presentation aims at being a reflexion on forms of writing on the presence and traces of memory of the sea in capverdian literature, from Eugénio Tavares (1867-1930) to José Luís Tavares. We will also refer to the generation of Claridade and the “builders” of independence, such as Ovídio Martins, Mário Fonseca, Corsino Fortes and others.
Paper short abstract:
ALL OUR ENERGY COMES FROM THE OCEAN, THE WAVES AND THE SALT. [...]little roly-polies/ slender/ goden targets/ chocolate coloured/ rosie from the sun/ speckled with sand/ salty sea air // they run to the water/ / rolling with the wave/ that comes and goes/ at the sea's whim/ ...
Paper long abstract:
THE SEA CAN REALLY BE SEEN AS A SOURCE FOR THE THEMATIC POLYPHONY IN CAPE-VERDIAN LITERATURE. THE SEA HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN ALL CAPE-VERDIAN WRITERS. WE WERE BORN SURROUNDED OF SOUNDS, RHYTMS, SMELLS AND ENERGIES OF THE SEA. I MYSELF LOVE PASSIONATELY THE OCEAN.
[...]"MORNA/ ISLANDERS SWEET SONG/ IN THE GENTLE WALTZING WAVES/ VOICE OF A POETIC PEOPLE/ PASSIONATELY EMBRASSING THE SEA/ [...]
CARLOTA DE BARROS (IN "DREAMT DREAM")
I FEEL THAT THE POET JORGE BARBOSA WAS A POET OF THE OCEAN. HE LOVED DEEPLY THE SEA AND EVERYONE WHO READS THE POEMS OF JORGE BARBOSA CAN FEEL THAT DEEP NOSTALGIA OF CAPE-VERDIANS, LIVING IN AN ISLAND SURROUNDED BY THE OCEAN, WISHING TO STAY AND SIMULTANEOUSLY WISHING TO LEAVE.
WE CAN READ HIS POEMS REMINDING HIM IN SANTA MARIA, LOOKING ANXIOUSLY AT THE WAVES. "[...] THE WAVES HAVE AN ENDLESS ANXIETY/ WHETHER REBEL / OR CALM/ SO THEY ARE JUST LIKE MY HEART /[ ...] JORGE BARBOSA (IN POETIC WORK")
I WISHED THAT THE SEA WAS CORN WITH ALL IT'S ENERGY: "IF ONLY ! THE SEA WAS CORN/ THE FERTILE LAND WOULD GIVE ITSELF PAINLESSLY/ TO THE MOST COLORFUL SEEDS/
CARLOTA DE BARROS
Paper short abstract:
To live in a country surrounded by sea, in a country where nothing happens, restricts its inhabitants to a monotonous, tedious everyday life, impelling them to leave in search of new experiences and of reducing their economic shortcomings.
Paper long abstract:
The Cape Verde archipelago, a small island state located on the coast of West Africa, at approximately 500 km from the promontory that gave it its name, is characterised by a geographical, historical, cultural and economic insularity, which influences the local artistic, literary and musical production.
The sea that isolates the archipelago and walls it in is reflected in the behaviour of its inhabitants in two ways: on the one hand, it encloses life and the local interaction between people; on the other hand, it frames the constant desire to travel. In view of those two behaviours, this paper highlights the theme of the sea in Cape Verdean authors as an element of the Cape Verdean collective consciousness, which is manifested in two types. The first is hostile and encloses the island, as if the sea were a huge wall. It represents anguish and regulates the local psyche. The second, considered healthy, frees the people, allowing them to derive their sustenance from it.
This paper aims to approach the theme of the sea as an element of the Cape Verdean collective consciousness.