Noémia de Sousa

ethics and aesthetics in a plural voice

Authors

  • Luciana Brandão Leal UFV – Universidade Federal de Viçosa – campus Florestal – Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa e Artes Visuais – GEED – Grupo de pesquisas em estéticas diaspóricas – Florestal – MG – Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58943/irl.vi53.15108

Keywords:

Noémia de Sousa, Colonialism, Mozambique, Poetry, Resistance

Abstract

An analysis of the poetic work Sangue Negro (2001) is proposed from discussions on ethics and aesthetics, based on propositions by Schiller (2002), Valcárcel (2005), Fanon (2005), and Walty (2018) to analyze political-ideological pretensions that echo in the plural voice of Noémia de Sousa. This writer is one of the pioneer voices of modern Mozambican poetry, which, in the mid-20th century, echoes resistance: her poems question social structures, repression against women, and, above all, the process of independence and political liberation of this Portuguese colony. In the context of the “new Mozambican poetry”, the writer inaugurated her own diction, profoundly influencing her contemporaries. Noémia de Sousa’s literary gesture presupposes the collective voice of Mozambique, whose sound echoes in the violent scenario split by colonization.

Author Biography

Luciana Brandão Leal, UFV – Universidade Federal de Viçosa – campus Florestal – Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa e Artes Visuais – GEED – Grupo de pesquisas em estéticas diaspóricas – Florestal – MG – Brasil.

Professora Adjunto na Universidade Federal de Viçosa, atuando no campus Florestal. 

Doutora em Letras - Literaturas de Lingua Portuguesa, pela PUC MINAS. Atuou como pesquisadora visitante na Universidade de Lisboa (2017)

Published

30/03/2022

Issue

Section

Postcolonial literatures and the shapes of the contemporary