POESIA, TERRA NATAL DA RESISTÊNCIA

Abstract

This article – starting from reflections by Hannah Arendt, especially one in which the philosopher says: “[...] through action a person is expressed in a way that is not available in any other activity. From this standpoint the word is also a form of action” (2001: 40) – proposes a brief reading of the work of the Santomean author Alda Espírito Santo, interpreting it as a gesture of resistance. Such resistance, in its first movement, sets itself against Portuguese colonialism and its acts of violence, as in the case of the Batepá massacre, for example. Its second movement includes her so-called post-independence production and it demonstrates the lucidity of the poet, who realizes that past revolutionary certainties have often turned into “uncertainties” that have lead her again to make a pact with the resistance.