THE PORTUGUESE DIASPORA IN THREE CONTEMPORANEOUS LITERATURE NOVELS: POINTS AND COUNTERPOINTS

In O retorno (2011), Dulce Maria Cardoso invite us to know the Rui’s story, a Portuguese Angolan teenager that returned from Angola, together his family. He is compelled to rebuild his life in Continental Portugal, from a precarious and limited financial situation. The scenario was the seventies and the turbulent period of return of more than a half million of Portuguese citizens, during the decolonization of former Portugal overseas territories in Africa. In this paper, we have analyzed the theme of diaspora in the contemporaneous Portuguese Literature, considering as the start point the sociocultural context contained in the book O retorno. Thus, we have established a bridge with two other novels, within a comparative perspective, in order to find similarities or dissimilarities among them, once they address the same theme: Pouca terra...Poucá terra, by Júlia Nery (1984), that brings to the center of the narrative the emigrants story from France, under the approach of a girl called  Leonor, and Livro, by José Luís Peixoto (2012), which has the main focus, among the multiplicity of themes, the emigration scenario from France, and the loving disagreements between two young lovers: Ilídio and Adelaide. The goal is to sketch a viewpoint, clarified by the cultural studies, which conduct us to understand more largely some questions which come by the Dulce Maria Cardoso novel, and also the two other books in question.  They give us the measure of the construction of the contemporaneous Portuguese novel, and reflect the idea of a nation which uses to have a condition of discomfort. This discomfort is proper to who are at the mercy of the diasporic fateful experience, since the most remote past.  

Lygia Bojunga e Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós: uma literatura infantojuvenil dialogando com Lobato

O estudo parte da análise do diálogo estabelecido entre os discursos dos autores Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós e Lygia Bojunga com Monteiro Lobato em suas obras. Para essa análise tomamos como corpus as obras Vermelho amargo (2011) e Por parte de pai (1995), do Bartolomeu; e da Lygia, O abraço (2010) e Sapato de salto (2006) e, com exemplos dessas narrativas, pretendemos mostrar as intertextualidades nas obras de Lygia e Bartolomeu, com destaque para o talento deles em singularizar suas obras. Esses autores se destacam no cenário da literatura infantojuvenil brasileira e possuem grandiosa habilidade em equilibrar a realidade e o imaginário, em suas obras, ou seja, narram ficções que proporcionam às crianças um espaço com situações e fatos do cotidiano, mas com liberdade de imaginação. Observa-se nesses autores a afirmação do discurso de Lobato de preocupação com a educação das crianças, mas sem prezar pelos saberes “inteiros” e “derradeiros” e por uma representação utópica da vida.