Articles · Vol. 19 No. 1 (2015): African Sociological Review · Pages 34-42
Recreating African Futures through literary imagination. The newest gender, racial, national and African identities as revealed in Mario Lúcio Sousa’s O Novíssimo Testamento (The newest Testament) (Cape Verde)
- DOI https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v19i1.3677
- Published 2015-03-17
- 9 pages
Abstract
The role of literature in imagining and building African identities, social roles, economic dynamics
and political structures cannot be underestimated. Indeed, from anti-colonialism through the preand
immediate post-independence periods up to the contemporary postcolonial state, literature has
been path breaking: it was through literature that pre-existing realities and historical processes
were critically revised in important ways. And it was also through literature that future projects
were designed that inspired political agents of all sorts, the most important example being the
very construction of African states as described by the poets and storytellers that were decisive in
creating the “imagined communities” that would sustain political struggle.
Recreating African Futures through literary imagination. The newest gender, racial, national and African identities as revealed in Mario Lúcio Sousa’s O Novíssimo Testamento (The newest Testament) (Cape Verde)
Le rôle de la littérature dans les enquêtes et la construction des identités africaines, les rôles sociaux,
la dynamique économique et les structures politiques ne peut pas être sous-estimée. En effet, de
l’anti-colonialisme à travers le pré et les périodes post-indépendance immédiate à l’État postcolonial
contemporain, la littérature a été de chemin de rupture: il était à travers la littérature
que les réalités post-existantes et les processus historiques ont été grièvement révisées de façon
importante . Et ce fut à travers la littérature que les futurs projets ont été conçus que les agents
politiques inspirées de toutes sortes, l’exemple le plus important étant la façon la construction des
Etats africains comme décrit par les poètes et les conteurs qui étaient décisif dans la création des
«sociétés imaginaires» qui soutiendraient politique luttes.
Keywords
african litterature african women postcolonial state The Cabe-verde
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References
- Freitas, Carolina (2010), “Mário Lúcio Sousa: Em busca do ‘espaço crioulo’”, in JL online, 12-10-2010, http://visao.sapo.pt/mario-lucio-sousa-em-busca-doespaco-crioulo=f575388, last access 27.08.2014.
- Sousa, Mário Lúcio (2010), O Novíssimo Testamento. E se Jesus Ressuscitasse Mulher?, Lisboa: D. Quixote.
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