Anticolonial poetics

Forging Solidarities and Imagining Futures

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4465366
AutoresBranwen Gruffydd Jones (0000-0002-9204-1621, Cardiff University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas32-54
Fecha de publicación2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPostcolonial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1368-8790 • E-ISSN: 1466-1888
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13688790.2023.2127656
OpenAlexW4302007819
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas14

This paper explores the construction of affective solidarities within and across the spaces and boundaries of colonized and racialized worlds in the works of militant poets of the Portuguese colonies in Africa. From the 1940s to the 1960s a distinct form of anticolonial poetry emerged written by a generation of Angolans and Mozambicans who became involved in the liberation struggles. The paper examines how poetry served as a vehicle to imagine and call into being various subjectivities and affective relations which actively countered the restrictions of colonialism and racism, especially on the part of the assimilados, the small educated elite constructed by Portuguese colonialism. Several important forms of anticolonial connectivity are expressed in these poems: connections with the broader African diaspora in North America, the Caribbean and Brazil; connections with all continental Africans; connections across the spaces of the Portuguese colonial empire – Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe; and connections of solidarity and unity between the assimilados and indígenas of the Portuguese colonies. These various dimensions of affective connection were constitutive of a new anticolonial imagination and looked towards liberated futures

Archaeology · Art · Cape verde · Colonialism · Creole language · Diaspora · Empire · Ethnology · Literature · Militant · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Sociology · Solidarity · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Philosophy