O colonialismo e as identidades em trânsito em Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, de Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

Abstract

Considering the large population flow between Portugal and the former Portuguese colonies after the end of Portuguese domain over the African colonies, the existence of complex and conflicting identities, such as that of the returnees, has been accentuated in contemporary times. In view of this finding, the objective is to analyze the influence of Portuguese colonization in Africa in the construction of the identities of Cartola and Aquiles, characters from Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. In the movement of leaving the colony and going to the metropolis, crises linked to belonging and identity are accentuated as aspects of the Portuguese colonial imaginary are illuminated. For this purpose, authors who establish the relationship between identity, literature and history, such as Eduardo Lourenço and Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, are analyzed. In this way, it is observed that the life condition imposed on the returnees demarcates an epic in reverse, which allows us to conclude that the marks of Portuguese exploration are planted beyond territorial limits and demarcate subjective territories.