Other powers, other knowledge - Ana Paula Tavares' response to Luís de Camões

Authors

  • Margarida Calafate Ribeiro Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Keywords:

Power. Knowledge. Poetry

Abstract

Through a reading of the poetry of Ana Paula Tavares, I will argue that the power/knowledge binary, based on 19th and 20th century colonialism, has been reappropriated, subverted, multiplied and cannibalized, revealing other identities. This process thus initiates a postcolonial time of possible access and appreciation of other knowledges, other powers, expressed originally in other languages, sounds and writings, and nowadays transmitted through the Portuguese language.

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Author Biography

Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

É investigadora no Centro de Estudos Sociais, da Universidade de Coimbra; Responsável da cátedra Eduardo Lourenço, na Universidade de Bolonha e Visiting Researcher Associate do King’s College, Universidade de Londres. Os seus actuais interesses de investigação incluem estudos pós-coloniais, literatura portuguesa e de países de língua portuguesa, e história do império português, em particular as guerras coloniais. Das suas publicações, destacam-se os livros África no Feminino: as mulheres portuguesas e a Guerra Colonial (Afrontamento, 2007); Uma História de Regressos: Império, Guerra Colonial e Pós-Colonialismo (Afrontamento, 2004); Fantasmas e Fantasias Imperiais no Imaginário Português Contemporâneo (com Ana Paula Ferreira) (Campo das Letras, 2003).

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Published

2008-06-30

How to Cite

Ribeiro, M. C. (2008). Other powers, other knowledge - Ana Paula Tavares’ response to Luís de Camões. Gragoatá, 13(24). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33161

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 24 (2008): Brazil and Africa: trajectories, faces and destination

Section

Literature Articles

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