Work

Lisboa e a portugalidade: contranarrativas em obras de Orlanda Amarílis e Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: I investigate, in works by Djaimilia Almeida and Orlanda Amarílis, the story of characters who dreamed of being in Lisbon and being Portuguese: Cartola (Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso), Boa Morte (Maremoto) and the protagonist of “Desencanto” (Cais-do-Sodré te Salamansa). The works denounce the impossibility for these characters to access “portugalidade”, an imaginary that celebrates the national mythologies and that manifests itself even in urban space. The exclusion of the characters occurs precisely in the urban space, and is related to matters of race and gender. My analysis has a feminist and postcolonial approach, in dialogue with Mbembe (2016), hooks (2005), Pratt (1994) and Vergés (2021).

Source: Via Atlântica

DOI: 10.11606/va.v26.n1.2025.209845

Author: Daniela Schrickte Stoll

Institution: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Language: English

Topic: Literature, Culture, and Criticism

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior