Gragoatá (Jun 2008)
Other powers, other knowledge - Ana Paula Tavares' response to Luís de Camões
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.
