No fundo do canto, guinendade e distopia na poesia pós-colonial de Odete Semedo

Abstract

This article examines how Guinean poetry in the Portuguese language portrays the recent problems that the country has been going through and how such conflicts, literarily elaborated through memory, have shaped the Guinean national identity and converged to the strengthening of a resistance to “(neo)colonialism”. For this, we will use the narrative path developed in some poems of the work No fundo do canto (2007), by Odete Semedo, since this work portrays a context of historical conflicts in Guinea-Bissau. The analysis illustrates from the investigation the characteristics of the multiple representations of Guinea as a feeling of belonging to the Guinean nation that still experiences colonial ties by state policies. The realization of this work proposes the interaction between the work of Odete Semedo and some thoughts of scholars and theorists such as: Homi Bhabha (2003), Franz Fanon (1969), Stuart Hall (2009), Benedict Anderson (1983), Moema Parente Augel ( 1998) and other scholars visited in the course of production.