Literature on and from Cape Verde
Maintained by Olav Aalberg, e-mail:
Old web site: http://home.no/tabanka
Updated July 2007
Brazilian journalist Gláucia Nogueira has released her 2nd book, a collection of previously published articles on the history of Capeverdean music.
Cape Verde related literature Our own library, in Word-format. Updated March 2006
Djudju Tavares wins Senna Barcelos Award
http://www.asemana.cv/article.php3?id_article=15392 28-01-06
Manuel de Jesus Tavares got The Portuguese Cultural Center
and the Association of Cape Verdean Writers "Senna Barcelos Award" January 27.
His prize-winning essay,
“Aspectos evolutivos da música cabo-verdiana” (“Evolutionary aspects of Cape
Verdean music”),
will now be published in book form, and is expected to be available for purchase
in March of this year.
Where to buy books/records?
- TFM - Centro do Livro e do Disco de Língua Portuguesa (in Germany)
- FNAC (Portugal)
- Paris: Espace Music Tropic, 63 Bld de Barbes, Tel: +33 1 4352 5764
- Paris: Cap Vert music (or Cap Vert Mélodie), 108 Rue Clignancourt (Metro Simplon), Tel: +33 1 4262 9212
- Listen to CV music in Paris: Check Le P´tit makrel
- Sons d´África: CD, DVD, VHS
- Som livre in Portugal - an amazing number of Capeverdean CDs available!
- Som livre in Brazil
-
Danish shop at
the NGO Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke
Look up books and CDs as "Cap Verde" - Terezinha Araújo´s record company
- An interesting recording by Capeverdeans, from 1931!
-
Gold Music have stores in Sucupira, Praia, and
Cacém outside Lisbon (Galerias Ibérica, Av. D. Nuno Álvares Pereira 22-24.
goldmusic@hotmail.com , Tel: +351 2191 20178, +351 964809061 - Mendes Brothers
- http://www.givamusic.com/ Gil and Gilyto Semedo´s studio
Literature links
- Eugénio Tavares morna composer and poet
-
Portuguese
Literary & Cultural
Studies
published in 2004 an issue dedicated to CV music and literature. 560 pages, 39 articles! Worth buying! - Corsino Fortes
- Dina Salústio
- João Varela, or João Vário, or G. T. Didial, or Timóteo Tio Tiofe.
- Instituto Camões
- Literatura Africanas na lingua Portuguesa
vol. 1
Cabo
Verde, GB, S. Tomé/Principe (pdf-file)
vol. 2: Angola e Mozambique -
Our own collection of and links to articles about Capeverdean authors and their works. This document contains articles from no longer available web sites, like Ciberkiosk.
-
Micro-universes and Situated Critical Theory:Postcolonial and Feminist Dialogues in a Comparative Study of Indo-English and Lusophone Women Writers, by Joana Filipa da Silva de Melo Vilela Passos (Portuguese). PhD dissertation.
This dissertation studies six texts written by women (three Indo-English novels, a novel and an anthology of short stories from Cape Verde and a novel from Mozambique). The three Lusophone texts (literature written in Portuguese, though it is not Portuguese literature) are compared to the Indo-English texts in order to assess different evolutions in the sense of national identity in these postcolonial contexts...on female authors from English speaking countries, Cape Verde (Dina Salústio, Orlanda Amarilis) and Mozambique.
Claridosos
Look into the collection of articles.
- Baltasar Lopes (pdf-format)
- Read about Manuel Lopes in A Semana
- Read about his novel Os Flagelados do vento leste, compared to a Haitian novel (Word-document).
- Read a comparison of Os flagelados and Vidas secas on the issue of drought
- The same book was turned into a movie in 1987.
- Teixeira de Sousa (died 2006)
- Henrique Texeira de Sousa’s Place and that of the Novel Ilheu De Contenda in the Emergence of Post-Enlightenment Cape Verde Fiction (pdf-document)
- Memória e identidade nos contos de Teixeira de Sousa (para uma antropologia da literatura) (pdf-document)
- Brasil e Cabo Verde: um diálogo entre José Lins do Rego e Baltasar Lopes
Adriano Gomes
On-line poet and author: This São Nicolauan lives and works in East-Timor.
He writes in Portuguese and Kriolo
Germano Almeida
- Articles on Germano Almeida and his books, updated April 2005
- Relendo Gilberto Freyre: o contexto do romance Os Dois Irmãos de Germano Almeida
- Almeida in Swedish A familia Trago and O Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno
- Almeida in English: The Testament (you find it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and a lot of places)
Library collections
- James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.