THE IN-BETWEEN PLACE OF THE AFRICAN SUBJECT: O SENHOR DAS ILHAS (MARIA ISABEL BARRENO) E O SÉTIMO JURAMENTO (PAULINA CHIZIANE)
Between-place. Westernization. O senhor das ilhas. Maria Isabel Barreno. O sétimo juramento. Paulina Chiziane.
This thesis investigates the in-between place of the African subject, based on the analysis of the novels O Senhor das Ilhas (1994), by Maria Isabel Barreno, and O seventh jury (2000), by Paulina Chiziane. The study focuses on identity conflicts and non-belonging resulting from the Westernization of the subject, aiming to understand the construction of this in-between in the process of Portuguese colonization, taking as space (background) the countries of Cape Verde and Mozambique, in movements of immanence and transcendence that, in the literature/society confrontation, allows the counterpoint between fiction and official history. In the investigation, it will be necessary to understand the process of the African diaspora and European immigration, divergent movements, but which contributed, whether positively or negatively, to the colonization of new lands, which gave rise to different forms of belonging and/or non-belonging. Given the above, it becomes necessary to move through the concepts of imaginary borders, deterritorialization, subjects in transit, cultural and religious contradiction, place of discourse. The following theorists and critics will be taken as a theoretical contribution: Bhabha (1998), Said (2011), Santiago (2000), Fanon (1968), Hall (2016), among others