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«Our Ancestors came from many Bloods». Gendered Narrations of a Hybrid Nation

2005; Brill; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1163/176830805774719728

1768-3084

Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues,

African history and culture studies

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-a-vis the multiple symbolic and material challenges faced by this young post-colonial nation-state. In them, Cape Verde is portrayed as an exceptional African case with boundaries carved by the ocean, free from ethnic conflict, and without a pre-colonial past through which to filter present realities. Les recits d'ascendance mixte au Cap-Vert utilisent l'appartenance a un sexe comme un denominateur commun dans le tissage d'une nation creole. Ces recits peuvent dissimuler les tensions, conflits et les difficultes, mais ils contiennent aussi des elements de fusion et de cohesion nationale. Ces recits sont et ont ete sexues, charges de partialite et etablissant une selection des elements de fusion qui fondent et qui entretiennent une identite capverdienne vis-a-vis des multiples defis symboliques et materiels auxquels doit faire face ce jeune Etat-nation post-colonial. Ils dressent un portrait du Cap-Vert comme un cas africain exceptionnel aux frontieres delimitees par l'ocean, sans conflit ethnique et sans passe pre-colonial a travers lequel filtrer les realites actuelles. Narrativas de ascendencia mista em Cabo Verde utilizam o genero como denominador comum no entretecer de uma nacao crioula. Essas narrativas podem esconder tensoes, conflitos e adversidades, mas tambem contem elementos de fusao e de coesao nacional. Sao e tem sido narrativas criadas, parciais e selectivas dos elementos de fusao substanciando e sustentando uma identidade caboverdiana perante os multiplos desafios simbolicos e materiais que esta jovem nacao pos-colonial tem enfrentado. Nelas, Cabo Verde e retratado como um caso africano de excepcao com fronteiras cavadas pelo oceano, livre de conflitos etnicos e sem um passado pre-colonial atraves do qual se possamfiltrar as realidades actuais.