Orlanda Amarílis, Vera Duarte and Dina Salústio: Texture in the Fiction of Female Cape Verdean Authors

Abstract

The writings of women, especially those of the Cape Verdean writers Orlanda Amarílis, Dina Salústio and Vera Duarte, contribute to the construction of the Cape Verdean identity and are aimed at challenging the violation of rights, especially those of women. The objective was to examine, based on the texture of texts written by women, the construction of a literature that, when focusing on women, in addition to initially trying to erase the colonialist ideal, based on a patriarchal structure, exposes, repeats, denounces and re-signifies the reality of women in contexts of oppression. In this way, the writing of Amarilis, Duarte and Salustio erupts on the borders of Cape Verde to embrace "female voices" which, via the pathways of literature, deconstruct structural violence and rebuild silenced identities.