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Paper short abstract:

This communication reflects on the ways in which literary reviews and bulletins were used in the 1960’s to claim independent and decolonized futures in Angola and its diasporas. It dwells on circulations and networks, as crucial to the construction of those possible futures.

Paper long abstract:

This communication addresses the ways in which some written medias, with focus on literary reviews bulletins, were used in the 1960’s to claim independent and decolonized futures in countries such as Angola and its diasporas. We are concerned with the ways in which circulations and networks were crucial to the very construction of this possible futures, as well as with the ways in which those representations were hidden and censored by the salazarist regime.

Tensions between Panafrican and negritudinist-inspired orientation of the publications sometimes were evident, in a decade in which nationalisms were revolutionizing the political asset of the continent.

Some anticolonial novels were aldo adapted to cinema in order to reach a widest audience. Movies like Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga, resulting from the adaptation of Luandino Viera’s novel A vida verdadeira de Domingos Xavier, were attempts of transposition of a denunciation narration and message into a more intelligible language code, as wells as into an accessible material both to the Angolan people and in order to gather international support. Those and further examples will be taken into consideration in order to dwell on the multiplicity of representations of possible African futures in that period.