Viagens e paragens da (e na) literatura caboverdiana

Abstract

Ever since Homer, the islands have been considered strongly attractive and inspirational places. Actually, to travel to, from or on the islands, is a way of escaping. The Cape Verdean writers, such as the latest winner of the Camões Prize, haven’t set aside their indestructible bond with the cradle of their birth. The narratological “insular” space both unites and sets apart the writers. Examples could be named of insular writers whose conflict with the islands turned that space into a “continental” one. Our goal is to research the “insular” metaphors and to show that, although the presence of the “island” is constant, the modern Cape Verdean writer, aims at transposing the spatial limit of the island itself.

Keywords

• voyage
• Cape Verde
• space