A montagem literária do discurso nacionalista em Lídia Jorge e Orlanda Amarilis

Abstract

If myths are bom from admiration and fear created by the instinct of knowledge, in Orlanda Amarilis, their peiformance confirms a cultural identity which'violates the imposition of european rationality. The invention of spirits prevails as marks of the cosmic world and its phenomenons, and of the physical world and its hallucinations in a land that brings in its identity drought, famine, insularity and affection. In Lídia Jorge, their peiformance questions, violates, reveals and ends apparently immutable myths. Both penetrate the poetics of a quotidian in which individual stories are excuses' for the composition of another image of a nation. The portugueses are actors of themselves and the capeverdians agents of capeverdianity. In Amarilis the revaluation, in Jorge the rediscovery of the motherland.