O EU NEGRO FOI SILENCIADO; O OUTRO NEGRO SÓ SABER DIZER SIM

O IMAGINÁRIO PORTUGUÊS EM CALEMA: ROMANCE AFRICANO

Abstract

This work presents a reading of the novel Calema: romance africano with the objective of proving that the book is part of: the directive actions of the Portuguese plan called “Ação Psicossocial”,the ideas of Portuguese imperial mysticism and the luso-tropicalism. Reading the book, it was identified that there is a process of silencing the Africans, what begins with the subtitle “romance africano”, since the novel is, actually, written by a Portuguese woman, featured by Portuguese people and with plenty of racist discourses. The conclusion is that the silencing process remains in the whole book. On the first part, there is a black self that is part of the protagonist’s identity but it is eliminated when she becomes and adult. On the second part, the black self is projected to the black other , which is represented by the Angolan black people. They are like children and usually say “yes”. The conclusion was also that the novel contributes to the maintenance of the stereotype of the black people based on the white people’s imaginary.