Literaturas Africanas em Língua Portuguesa: da busca identitária à estética da negritude

Abstract

The African literature in Portuguese was, for many years, a literature written by white man and for white man, where the black man, without psychological and philosophical deepness, was seen and described as something exotic and secondary. In the so called colonial literature, the white man was the center of the narrative. A literature that privileges poetry, the political militancy and the fight for the black man’s place in the African society came with the politic conscience. After the independencies, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe develop another kind of literature, written by black, mestizos and white men “with black soul”, that has its own characteristics, distances from the Portuguese literature and reveals a great poetical expressivity and a great capacity of innovation.