Identidade e resistência na escrita de Noèmia de Sousa

Abstract

This work aimed to study the work Sangue negro from the precursor of Mozambican literature, Noémia de Sousa, emphasizing to identity, resistance and freedom elements in her poems. The main research questions, they displayed to the social context in which Noèmia de Sousa became a poet, deepening her understanding of Mozambican political and literary policies in the years 1949 and 1951, the pre-independence period and how that moment influenced in her choices about the themes topics, among them Africa, Mozambique, the people and the woman, and the relationship between themes with a Mozambican identity and resistance to European colonialism. Another element analyzed in the study in relation to the production of Noémia de Sousa was her revelations of the female lyrical self in her poetry, among them "Se me queres conhecer" and "Moças das Docas". The theoretical referential was based on the following scholars: Gayatri Spivak (2010), Simone de Beauvoir (2000); Du Bois (1999), Gilroy (2001), Fanon (2008), Scott (2011), Glissant (2005); Bourdieau (1977); Stuart Hall (2006) Bhabha (1998), and Edward Said (2005).The poetic writings by Noèmia de Sousa represent an image of a village punished by slaving imperialism, but full of hopes for freedom completely.