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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]
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