Conakry, de Grada Kilomba, Filipa César e Diana MacCarty

 

Grada Kilomba, Plantation Memories: episodes of everyday racism, Münster, Unrast, 2010.
PDF:
https://schwarzemilch.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/kilomba-grada_2010_plantation-memories.pdf

Performance "Illusions" por Grada Kilomba

Apresentação da performance Illusions, de Grada Kilomba, na Bienal de São Paulo, em 2016.
Este ano Grada apresenta o seu trabalho em Portugal.

Artigo sobre "the danger of a single story"

Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos, "O perigo de uma história única das literaturas africanas em língua portuguesa" In Fernanda Gil Costa e Inocência Mata (Org.), Colonial/Post-colonial: writing as memory in literature. Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2012.

Biblioteca Faculdade de Letras da UL (cota):  821.134.3.09 COS,F

Resumo: É pelo prisma dos estudos pós-coloniais que as literaturas africanas em língua portuguesa vêm ganhando seu lugar em meio à cultura ocidental. Na medida em que relê a história dessas literaturas considerando as dinâmicas de poder que conferem voz ou condenam ao silenciamento presenciamos, com um misto de entusiasmo e excitação, as formações dessas literaturas nacionais.

Entretanto, hoje, mais de trinta anos depois das independências de Angola, Moçambique, Guiné-Bissau, Cabo Verde e São Tomé e Príncipe, ainda conhecemos suas literaturas tal como permitem as atuais dinâmicas de poder. Assim, a comunicação que segue pretende discutir as atuais dinâmicas de poder acabam por promover aquilo que a escritora nigeriana Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie chamou de the danger of a single story aplicado, aqui, às literaturas africanas.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie é uma escritora nigeriana, nascida a 15 de Setembro de 1977, na cidade de Enugu. Em 2008 ganhou o MacArthur Genuis Grant e foi considerada pelo suplemento literário da Times como uma das mais proeminentes autoras que tem contribuído para atrair uma nova geração de leitores para a literatura africana.

 Livros publicados em Portugal:

Meio Sol Amarelo, (romance) Dom Quixote, 2017.
Todos Devemos Ser Feministas, (ensaio) Dom Quixote, 2015.
Americanah, (romance) Dom Quixote, 2013.
A coisa à volta do teu pescoço, (contos) Dom Quixote, 2012.
A cor do hibisco, (romance) Asa, 2010.
Meio Sol Amarelo, (romance) Asa, 2009.

Romances

• Purple Hibiscus (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2003; London: Fourth Estate, 2004; Lagos: Farafina, 2004).
• Half of a Yellow Sun (London: Fourth Estate, 2006; Lagos: Farafina, 2006; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007).
• Americanah (London: Fourth Estate, 2013; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013; Lagos: Farafina, 2013).

Peça de teatro

• For Love of Biafra (Ibadan: Spectrum Books, 1998).

Poesia

• Decisions (London: Minerva Press, 1997).

Contos

• The Thing around Your Neck (London: Fourth Estate, 2009; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009; Lagos: Farafina: 2009).

Contos em revistas, jornais e antologias

• 'You in America', Zoetrope: All-Story Extra 38, Winter 2001 [online]. Also published in Discovering Home: A selection of writings from the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing (Bellevue: Jacana, 2003), pp. 27-34. An early version of the short story 'The Thing around Your Neck'.
• 'The Scarf', Wasafiri 37, Winter 2002, pp. 26-30. An early version of the short story 'A Private Experience'.
• 'The American Embassy', Prism International 40.3, Spring 2002, pp. 22-29. Also published in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003, ed. by Laura Furman (New York: Anchor Books, 2003), pp. 220-229; and in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 128-141.
• 'Half of a Yellow Sun', Literary Potpourri 12, November 2002. Also published in Zoetrope: All-Story 7.2, Summer 2003, pp. 10-17; in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004, ed. by Dave Eggers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004), pp. 1-17; in Chimurenga 5: Head/Body(&Tools)/Corpses, April 2004, and in Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria, ed. by Nduka Otiono & Odoh Diego Okenyodo (Yenagoa: Treasure Books, 2006), pp. 73-86. Published in French as 'Pâle était le soleil' in Courier International 715, 15 July 2004, and in Italian as 'Mezzo sole giallo' in Internazionale 572, 30 December 2004.
• 'My Mother, the Crazy African', In Posse Review: Multi-Ethnic Anthology, n.d. Also published in One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, ed. by Chris Brazier (Oxford: New Internationalist, 2009), pp. 53-60.
• 'New Husband', Iowa Review 33.1, Spring 2003, pp. 53-66. Also published in Farafina 1 (print edition), October 2005, pp. 9-12, 28-29. An early version of the short story 'The Arrangers of Marriage'.
• 'Imitation', Other Voices 38, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 143-153. Also published in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 22-42; and separately in e-book format (Vintage Shorts, 2015).
• 'Women Here Drive Buses', in Proverbs for the People: Contemporary African-American Fiction, ed. by Tracy Price-Thompson & TaRessa Stovall (New York: Dafina, 2003), pp. 1-7.
• 'Light Skin', Calyx 21.2, Summer 2003, pp. 49-63.
• 'Transition to Glory', One Story 27 (2.9), 30 September 2003. Also published in African Love Stories: An Anthology, ed. by Ama Ata Aidoo (Banbury: Ayebia, 2006), pp. 34-49.
• 'Lagos, Lagos', in Discovering Home: A selection of writings from the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing (Bellevue: Jacana, 2003), pp. 76-86. Also published in Chimurenga 8: We're all Nigerian!, December 2005.
• 'The Thing around Your Neck', Prospect 99, June 2004, pp. 64-68. A revised version of 'You in America'. Also published in This Is Not Chick Lit, ed. by Elizabeth Merrick (New York: Random House, 2006), pp. 3-13; Ms. Magazine 16.3 (Summer 2006), pp. 64-70; and in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 115-127.
• 'Recaptured Spirits', Notre Dame Review 18, Summer 2004, pp. 47-58.
• 'A Private Experience', Virginia Quarterly Review 80.3, Summer 2004, pp. 170-179. A revised version of 'The Scarf'. Also published in further revised form in the Observer (Review supplement), 28 December 2008, p. 18; in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 43-56; and in An African Quilt: 24 Modern African Stories, ed. by Barbara H. Solomon & W. Reginald Rampone Jr. (New York: Signet, 2013), pp. 27-39.
• 'The Grief of Strangers', Granta 88: Mothers, Winter 2004, pp. 65-81.
• 'Ghosts', Zoetrope: All Story 8.4, Winter 2004, pp. 38-43. Also published in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 57-73.
• 'Do Butterflies Eat Ashes?', Fiction 19.2, 2005, pp. 3-17.
• 'The Master', Granta 92: The View from Africa, Winter 2005, pp. 17-41. The opening chapter of the novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006).
• 'Tomorrow is Too Far', Prospect 118, January 2006, pp. 56-63. Also published in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 187-197.
• 'The Time Story', Per Contra, Spring 2006.
• 'Jumping Monkey Hill', Granta 95: Loved Ones, October 2006, pp. 161-176. Also published in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 95-114.
• 'Cell One', New Yorker 82.47, 29 January 2007, pp. 72-77. Also published in Best African American Fiction: 2009, ed. by Gerald Early & E. Lynn Harris (New York: Bantam Books, 2009), pp. 61-73; and in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 3-21.
• 'On Monday Last Week', Granta 98: The Deep End, Summer 2007, pp. 31-48. Also published as 'On Monday of Last Week' in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 74-94.
• 'My American Jon', Binyavanga Wainaina: Me, My Writing and African Writers, 27 August 2007. Also published in Conjunctions 48 (Spring 2007), pp. 231-240; in Mechanics Institute Review 6, 2009, pp. 27-37; and in African Sexualities: A Reader, ed. by Sylvia Tamale (Cape Town: Pambuzaka Press, 2011), pp. 288-294.
• 'A Tampered Destiny', Financial Times, 29 December 2007, p. 1.
• 'Emeka', in Four Letter Word: New Love Letters, ed. by Joshua Knelman & Rosalind Porter (London: Chatto & Windus, 2007).
• 'Hair', Guardian, 10 November 2007. Also published in Ms. Magazine 18.4 (Fall 2008), pp. 66-70.
• 'The Headstrong Historian', New Yorker 84.18, 23 June 2008, pp. 68-75. Also published in The PEN/O. Henry Prize stories 2010, ed. Laura Furman (New York : Anchor Books, 2010); in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 198-218; and in Best African American fiction 2010, ed. Gerald Early & Nikki Giovanni (New York: One World Books, 2010), pp. 27-41.
• 'Chinasa', Guardian, 27 January 2009. Also published in New Internationalist 424 (1 July 2009), p. S7.
• 'Do', in Anonthology (London: Fourth Estate, 2009).
• 'Sola', Sunday Times, 30 August 2009, p. 60. Also published in in Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2009).
• 'Quality Street', Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics (1 February 2010). Also published in New Statesman, 5-18 April 2010, pp. 36-39.
• 'Ceiling', Granta 111: Going Back (Summer 2010), pp. 65-80.
• 'Birdsong', New Yorker, 20 September 2010, pp. 96-103. Also published in 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker, ed. by Deborah Treisman (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2010).
• 'The Arrangers of Marriage', The Granta Book of the African Short Story, ed. Helon Habila (London: Granta Books, 2011), pp. 1-17. A revised version of 'New Husband'; previously published in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009), pp. 167-186.
• 'Miracle', Guardian [online], 7 November 2011. An extract from the novel Americanah (2013).
• 'Checking Out', New Yorker 89.5, 18 March 2013, p. 66-73. An extract from the novel Americanah (2013).
• 'Ofodile', Guardian (Weekend), 21 December 2013, p. 46.
• 'An awakening, to the sound and dust of the Harmattan wind', Serpentine Galleries' Bridge Commission Audio Walks, 2014. Audio file.
• 'The miraculous deliverance of Oga Jona', Scoop, 18 July 2014.
• 'The Shivering', in Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara, ed. Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2014). Previously published in the collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), pp. 142-166.
• 'Olikoye', The Art of Saving a Life, January 2015. Also published in Matter, January 2015.
• 'Apollo', New Yorker 91.8, 13 April 2015, pp. 64-69.
• 'The Arrangements', New York Times (Book Review Supplement), 3 July 2016, p. 1. [online version: 28 June 2016]
• Untitled story in the 'Tiny stories' series, UNICEF, November 2016.

Conto em E-book

• The Shivering (Vintage Shorts, 2016). Originally published in the collection The Thing around Your Neck (2009).

Ensaio

• We Should All Be Feminists (London: Fourth Estate, 2014). Originally published in e-book format (New York: Vintage Shorts, 2014).
• Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (London: Fourth Estate, 2017; New York: Knopf, 2017).

Artigos publicados em periódicos

• 'Heart is where the Home was', Topic Magazine 3, Winter 2003.
• 'Chasing American', Farafina 5 (online version), 21 September 2004. Later published as 'The Line of No Return'.
• 'On sex, we are just buffoons: my response', Vanguard (Nigeria), 15 August 2004.
• 'The Line of No Return', New York Times, 29 November 2004, p. A21. Also published as 'The line of no return at the embassy', International Herald Tribune, 30 November 2004, p. 6. Revised versions of 'Chasing American'.
• 'Nsukka in the eyes of a novelist', Guardian (Nigeria), 3 January 2005. Published as 'Tiny Wonders' in Speakeasy Magazine (2003); also published in the P.S. section of the Harper Perennial edition of Purple Hibiscus (London: Harper Perennial, 2005), pp. 9-14.
• 'Blinded by God's business', Guardian (Nigeria), 19 February 2005.
• 'Diary', New Statesman 134 (issue 4747), 4 July 2005, p. 10.
• 'Blissful Sloth', Johns Hopkins Magazine 57.4 (Special Issue: The Seven Deadly Sins), September 2005.
• 'A Nigerian Book Tour in Australia', Farafina 4 (print edition), April 2006, pp. 3-5.
• 'Life During Wartime: Sierra Leone, 1997', New Yorker 82.17, 12 June 2006, pp. 72-73.
• 'Buildings fall down, pensions aren't paid, politicians are murdered, riots are in the air ... and yet I love Nigeria', Guardian (G2 Supplement), 8 August 2006, p. 5.
• 'The little boy who talked of magic', Times, 19 August 2006. A revised version of 'Life During Wartime: Sierra Leone, 1997'.
• 'Truth and Lies', Guardian, 16 September 2006, p. 22.
• 'My college roommate expected me to be a she-Tarzan', Jane 10.8 (October 2006), pp. 126-127.
• 'Our "Africa" Lenses', Washington Post, 13 November 2006, p. A21. Also published as 'Adopting Africans not the answer', Newsday, 14 November 2006, p. A51. A shorter version was also published as 'My Africa lens clearly sees charity in sharp relief', St Petersburg Times, 19 November 2006, p. 1.
• 'In the Shadow of Biafra', in the P.S. section of the Harper Perennial edition of Half of a Yellow Sun (London: Harper Perennial, 2007), pp. 9-12.
• 'Shall I Live, Or Shall I Blog-Blah-Blah?', Hartford Courant, 1 April 2007.
• 'An der Klimafront: Schwarze Weihnachten', Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 11 April 2007. In German. The original English version, 'Black Christmas', is also available online.
• 'The exemplary chronicler of an African tragedy' (on Chinua Achebe), Guardian, 13 June 2007.
• 'The Writing Life', Washington Post, 17 June 2007, p. BW11.
• 'Kitchen Talk: Peppers', Brick 79 (Summer 2007), pp. 49-52.
• 'Real Food', New Yorker 83.26, 3-10 September 2007, p. 92. Also published in Best African American Essays: 2009, ed. by Debra J. Dickerson & Gerald Early (New York : Bantam Books, 2009), pp. 20-22.
• 'Operation', Granta 99: What Happened Next, Autumn 2007, pp. 31-37. Also published as 'To My One Love', Utne Reader 146 (March-April 2008), pp. 84-86.
• 'An African Education in No Sweetness Here', NPR, 18 January 2008.
• 'Sex in the City', Guardian, 2 February 2008, p. 3.
• 'Guest Editor's Note', Farafina 13 (Special Issue: America), March-April 2008, p. 3.
• 'Nigeria's immorality is about hypocrisy, not miniskirts', Guardian, 2 April 2008, p. 32. Also published in Hindu, 4 April 2008, p. 11; in Leadership, 7 April 2008; and as 'In Nigeria, miniskirts are a maximum issue', Age, 4 April 2008.
• 'The Color of an Awkward Conversation', Washington Post, 8 June 2008, p. B07. Also published as 'The color of an awkward conversation about race', Dallas Morning News, 15 June 2008.
• 'As a child, I thought my father invincible. I also thought him remote', Observer, 15 June 2008.
• 'African "Authenticity" and the Biafran Experience', Transition 99, 2008, pp. 42-53.
• 'Strangely Personal', PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers 9 (2008), pp. 34-37.
• Essay in Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, photographs by Ed Kashi, ed. by Michael Watts (New York: powerHouse Books, 2008).
• 'Diary: The writer of Half of a Yellow Sun on the sour mood in Lagos, a reborn US and juicy plums', Times, 28 March 2009, p. 2. Published online as 'Diary: the writer of Half a Yellow Sun on the joys of water for non-swimmers', Times, 28 March 2009.
• 'The Danger of a Single Story' (April 2009), TED, posted October 2009. [available online only]
• 'Allow Hope but Also Fear', Kalamazoo 2009 Commencement Speech, 14 June 2009. [available online only]
• 'Diary', Financial Times, 11 July 2009, p. 2.
• 'My hero: Muhtar Bakare', Guardian, 19 September 2009, p. 5.
• 'The Police, Our Friends', NEXT, 30 September 2009.
• 'Why do South Africans hate Nigerians?', Guardian (G2), 5 October 2009, p. 2.
• 'Father Chinedu', PEN America 11: Make Believe (2009), pp. 91-93.
• 'Everywhere, moisture is greedily sucked up', Guardian, 18 December 2009, p. 25. Short text about the harmattan.
• Introduction to The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God, by Chinua Achebe (New York: Everyman's Library, 2010), pp. vii-xiii. Also published online as 'The man who rediscovered Africa', salon.com, 24 January 2010.
• 'What I see in the mirror', Guardian (Weekend), 23 January 2010, p. 43.
• 'Letter from Lagos', in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Volume 33: The San Francisco Panorama, Panorama Book Review (January 2010), p. 1.
• 'Blood, oil and the banality of greed', NEXT, 4 April 2010. Review of the film Blood and Oil.
• 'A new Nigerian-ness is infusing the nation', Globe and Mail, 10 May 2010, p. A17.
• 'My favourite dress', Guardian, 8 June 2010, p. 7. Short text.
• 'World Cup 2010: Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and South Africa - my boys', Guardian, 11 June 2010, p. 2. Also published in Swedish as 'Vägen till det stora målet', trans. Patrik Svensson, Sydsvenskan, 17 June 2010.
• 'Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee', Guardian, 10 July 2010, p. 4. Also published as 'Exposing America's social fault lines', Sunday Star-Times, 18 July 2010, p. 7.
• 'The Writer as Two Selves: Reflections on the Private Act of Writing and the Public Act of Citizenship', lecture delivered at Princeton University, 20 October 2010. Unpublished.
• 'The Role of Literature in Modern Africa', New African 500 (November 2010), p. 96.
• 'A Street of Puzzles' ('Windows on the World' series), New York Times, 5 December 2010, p. WK9. [online version: 4 December 2010] Later published as 'Windows on the World', Observer, 26 December 2010, and in Windows on the World: 50 Writers, 50 Views, illustrations by Matteo Pericoli (New York: Penguin, 2014), pp. 16-18.
• 'Women of the Decade', Financial Times Magazine, 10 December 2010, p. 23. [online version: 10 December 2010]
• 'A Nigerian revolution', Guardian, 17 March 2011, p. 38. [online version: 16 March 2011]
• 'The Year's Biggest "He Said, She Said"', Newsweek, 26 December 2011 - 2 January 2012, pp. 42-43. Published online as 'DSK Vs. The Maid: Who Would the Jury Have Believed?', Daily Beast, 19 December 2011.
• Lecture delivered at 'Narratives for Europe – Stories that Matter', Amsterdam, 18 April 2011. [available online only]
• 'No More Superpower?', New York Times (Opinion Pages), 24 June 2011.
• 'Why Are You Here?', Guernica, 15 January 2012.
• 'A Country's Frustration, Fueled Overnight', New York Times (Opinion Pages), 17 January 2012, p. A23. [online version: 16 January 2012]
• 'To Instruct and Delight: A Case For Realist Literature', Commonwealth Foundation, 15 March 2012. [available online only]
• 'My Uncle Mai', Financial Times, 19 May 2012, p. 26. [online version: 18 May 2012]
• 'Things Left Unsaid', review of There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, by Chinua Achebe, London Review of Books 34.19 (October 2012), pp. 32-33.
• 'Chinua Achebe at 82: "We Remember Differently"', Premium Times (Nigeria), 23 November 2012. Repr. in Chinua Achebe: Tributes and Reflections, ed. by Nana Ayebia Clarke & James Currey (Banbury: Ayebia, 2014), pp. 90-96. Also published as 'Awo Versus Achebe - "We Remember Differently"', Vanguard, 24 November 2012.
• 'Facts are stranger than fiction', Guardian (Review supplement), 20 April 2013, p. 15. Also published as 'Truth is no stranger to fiction', Mail & Guardian, 10 May 2013.
• 'The baby who never made it to Atlanta', New York Times, 8 December 2013, p. SR9. Published online as 'A flight diversion', New York Times, 6 December 2013.
• 'We have lost a star', Premium Times, 19 January 2014. On Ghanaian journalist Komla Dumor.
• 'Why can't he just be like everyone else?', The Scoop, 18 February 2014. On Nigeria's anti-gay law. Also published in NewsWireNGR, 19 February 2014, and Daily Times, 19 February 2014.
• 'Why can't a smart woman love fashion?', Elle, 20 February 2014.
• 'Hiding From Our Past', New Yorker [online], 1 May 2014.
• 'The President I Want', Scoop, 4 May 2014.
• 'Nigeria's brutal past haunts the present', Telegraph, 31 May 2014.
• 'I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist', Guardian (Review supplement), 18 October 2014, p. 2. An extract from We Should All Be Feminists.
• 'Lights out in Nigeria', New York Times, 1 February 2015, p. SR4.
• 'Democracy, Deferred', Atlantic, 10 February 2015.
• 'On The Oba Of Lagos', Olisa.tv, 10 April 2015.
• Commencement address given at Eastern Connecticut State University, 12 May 2015. [available online only]
• Commencement address given at Wellesley College, 29 May 2015. [available online only]
• 'My Father's Kidnapping', New York Times (Sunday Review), 31 May 2015, p. 5. [online version: 30 May 2015]
• 'Raised Catholic', Atlantic, 14 October 2015.
• 'Why Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Considers Her Sister a "Firm Cushion" at Her Back', Vanity Fair, May 2016.
• Speech delivered at the World Humanitarian Day Event in New York, 19 August 2016. [available online only]
• 'Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions', Facebook, 12 October 2016. [available online only]
• 'To the First Lady, With Love', T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 17 October 2016. About Michelle Obama.
• 'Nigeria's Failed Promises', New York Times (Opinion Pages), 19 October 2016, p. A14. [online version: 18 October 2016]
• 'What Hillary Clinton's Fans Love About Her', Atlantic, 3 November 2016.
• 'On the BBC Newsnight Interview', Facebook, 25 November 2016. [available online only]
• 'Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About', New Yorker, 2 December 2016.
• 'Rereading Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich', New Yorker, 1 August 2017.

Mais informação: http://chimamanda.com
e http://www.cerep.ulg.ac.be/adichie/index.html

O perigo da história única

As nossas vidas, as nossas culturas, são compostas por muitas histórias sobrepostas. A romancista nigeriana Chimamanda Adichie conta a história de como descobriu a sua voz cultural — e adverte que, se ouvirmos apenas uma história sobre outra pessoa ou país, corremos o risco de um erro crítico.

Orientalismo e a leitura do mundo

Neste curto mas incisivo vídeo, o historiador Edward Said mostra-nos como o Ocidente sempre teve o poder de representar o "outro" colonial, enquanto simultaneamente o manteve sempre em silêncio.


Como defendeu Roland Barthes nas suas obras, há que desconstruir o que nos rodeia, e interpretar como textos e símbolos que são, chegando assim a uma compreensão mais real e autêntica do mundo.

 

Orientalismo Português

O Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras da UL tem um projecto dedicado ao Orientalismo Português - o projecto Orion -, com várias produções nesta área, nomeadamente uma base de dados sobre os autores com relação com o Oriente.

Existem vários autores com relação com o Oriente e, particularmente, que espelharam essa relação na sua escrita. Uma das primeiras e mais incontornáveis será decerto Luís de Camões não só com Os Lusíadas mas também com alguma poesia lírica.

Deixamos aqui algumas referências como Camilo Pessanha, especialmente com o livro Clepsydra.

A autora Ondina Braga tem a sua escrita muito marcada pelas viagens, nomeadamente pelo Oriente.

Jacinto Lucas Pires escreve também sobre uma viagem ao Japão na obra Livro Usado.

As Naus, António Lobo Antunes

António Lobo Antunes, As naus, Publicações D. Quixote, 1988.

(Excertos)

 

"Nunca encalhei, no entanto, em homens tão amargos como nessa época de dor em que os paquetes volviam ao reyno repletos de gente desiludida e raivosa, com a bagagem de um pacotinho na mão e uma acidez sem cura no peito, humilhados pelos antigos escravos e pela prepotência emplumada dos antropófagos" (ANTUNES, 1988, p. 200).

O homem chamado Luís, Camões, declara: "[...] palavra que imaginava uma enseada repleta de naus aparelhadas que rescendiam a noz-moscada e a canela, e afinal encontrei apenas uma noite de prédios esquecidos a treparem para um castelo dos Cárpatos pendurado no topo, uma ruína com ameias em cuja hera dormiam gritos estagnados de pavões" (ANTUNES, 1988, p. 92)

"Passando por uma placa que designava o edifício incompleto e que dizia Jerónimos esbarrámos com a Torre ao fundo, a meio do rio, cercada de petroleiros iraquianos, defendendo a pátria das invasões castelhanas, e mais próximo, nas ondas frisadas da margem, a aguardar os colonos, presa aos limos da água por raízes de ferro, com almirantes de punhos de renda apoiados na amurada do convés e grumetes encarrapitados nos mastros aparelhando as velas para o desamparo do mar que cheirava a pesadelo e a gardênia, achámos à espera, entre barcos a remos e uma agitação de canoas, a nau das descobertas" (ANTUNES, 1988, p. 10).

"Cabral viu a esposa erguer-se da sua tábua de melhoramentos plásticos, idêntica às imagens das igrejas de manhã, pulverizadas pelo sol rebentado como um fruto nos vitrais de degolações de mártires da nave principal, de forma que se levantou, estarrecido, de tornozelos embaraçados na espada, avançou um passo lento, como se caminhasse sobre a água, para aquela aparição de beata laica preparada para a visita hebdomadária do senhor Sepúlveda da moldura do piano, e perguntei a medo, roçando com a ponta dos dedos a sua inacessível atmosfera de perfume e pó de arroz, Tens por acaso doze contos e quinhentos que me emprestes?" (ANTUNES, 1988, p. 173).