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Representations of East Timor in the Poetry of Ruy Cinatti: Colonial Rule under Crossfire

2017; Linguagem: Inglês

10.62791/x1nw6q87

2573-1432

Reinaldo Francisco Silva,

Peacebuilding and International Security

Abstract: Informed by current postcolonial discourse, this article highlights Cinatti’s position on Portuguese colonial rule in East Timor, while shedding additional light on its economic, cultural, and ethnic abuses. Realizing, shortly after the revolution, that his warnings about the future of the territory were to no avail, he ceased to write about East Timor. To his dismay, the Portuguese and their politicians were completely enraptured by the taste of freedom, unmindful of Indonesia’s readiness to step in for another period of colonial rule and annexation of the territory.