A poesia de Noémia de Sousa: uma descrição da mulher moçambicana em “Sangue negro”

Awọn ewi ti Noémia de Sousa: apejuwe ti obinrin Mozambique ni "Sangue negro"

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of the representation of the female figure in three poems from the work “Sangue negro”, written by the Mozambican Noémia de Sousa, published for the first time in 2001, in which the verses show the portrait of a Portuguese colonial system marked by racial prejudice and violence against Mozambican woman. The critical framework that underlies the raised discussions in this research comes from literary studies that focus on African literature in Portuguese, such as Padilha (2004), Fonseca and Moreira (2007), Noa (2008) and Chiziane (2013), as well as it comes from the systematic survey of academic studies about the topic in focus, such as Freitas (2010), Carvalho and Ribeiro (2017), Bonini (2018) and Oliveira and Coelho (2019). So, the main objective is to identify the situation of black woman in the colonial period in Mozambique. For that, a descriptive model and a qualitative data analysis were used, because of the bibliographical nature of this study. The analysis of “Sangue negro” makes evident a system of social relations in force in colonial Mozambican society that marginalizes black woman, configuring itself as a narrative discourse that allows the reader to glimpse the suffering, pain and anguish of a female poetic persona silenced by the horrors of colonization in Africa. Thus, “Sangue negro”'s poetic verses present a poetry of combat and female resistance to Portuguese colonial domination.