Entre armas e letras... Do Timor-Leste à Guiné-Bissau: o narrar para resistir nas obras poéticas Uma casa e duas vacas (2000) de João Aparício e No fundo do canto (2007) de Odete Semedo

Abstract

The work that now presents seeks to reflect on the literary narrative of the conflict as a mechanism for strengthening a literature of memory and resistance, analyzing how this narrative develops in the works No fundo do canto (2007) of the Guinean Odete Semedo and Uma casa e duas vacas (2000) of the Timorese João Aparício, since these poetic works are marked in a context of intense conflicts in Guinea-Bissau and Timor-Leste. Semedo's work, for its memorialistic character in dealing with the intense conflicts that occurred in the period of 1998/1999, who left bitter memories for the Guinean people, together with the work of João Aparício, which is part of the bulge of popular consultations to decide whether the country would become independent or integrated to Indonesia, in a scenario of pain and death, provide the ideal field for promoting a comparatist analysis of their poetics in order to observe how the process of strengthening the national resistance is formulated by the authors. The conflicts described literally in Guinea-Bissau and Timor-Leste are significant to understand the dynamics of production of a literature of resistance, as well as to evidence a work that seeks to retell the history of wars, coups and national shocks, to negotiate a national identity, resignify the national sense and make themselves visible before all marginality to which they have been submitted over centuries. It is therefore a resist to exist