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Title: | 'Our Ancestors Came from Many Bloods'. Gendered Narrations of a Hybrid Nation |
Author: | Rodrigues, Isabel P.B. Fêo |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Lusotopie |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 217-232 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cape Verde |
Subjects: | oral traditions Creoles gender relations nation building Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations History and Exploration Women's Issues Cultural Roles |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/17683084-0120102016 |
Abstract: | Narratives of mixed ancestry in Cape Verde use gender as common denominator in the weaving of a Creole nation. These narratives may hide tensions, conflicts, and adversities, but they also contain elements of fusion and national cohesion. They are and have been gendered narratives, partial and selective of the elements of fusion substantiating and sustaining a Cape Verdean identity vis-à-vis the multiple symbolic and material challenges faced by this young postcolonial nation-State. In the narratives, which were collected during fieldwork carried out in 1997-1998, Cape Verde is portrayed as an exceptional African case with boundaries carved by the ocean, free from ethnic conflict, and without a precolonial past through which to filter present realities. Notes, ref, sum. in English, French and Portuguese. [Journal abstract] |