FEMALE INFLUENCE IN GUINEAN POETIC:

WITH EMPAHSIS IN POETRY OF ODETE SEMEDO AND FILOMENA EMBALÓ

Abstract

The object of this work is investigation about female influence in literature reconstruction  process at Guinea Bissau, country recently independent (1974), and heir to the culturals Africans traditions, orality, griots. The oral literature of Guinea Bissau after 1940 has anticolonialist and identity characteristics. Women like Odete Semedo and Filomena Embaló appear in the final of nineties as females voices reconstructing the national identity and making obvious presence of Guinean women in the decolonized fight, significantly contributing with  Guinean women’s literature, bringing hers uniques perspectives and dealing relevants social and culturals questions. With qualitative character, the proposal of bibliografich and documentary research try to understand if and how female intellecuality helps statement of Guinean’s emancipation, wich can not be exclusively politics, but also cultural, assuring stability and continuity of that and how it can helps for construction nationals identities elements. Both, through poetry  and from women’s sense, their longings, conflicts, hopes, translate the soul of Guinea people from orality into literature and  his effforts to make sure itself as nation independent intellectual, politics and socially from the others Portugueses colonies. Couto and Embaló (2010), Timbane (2018), Ié (2019), Gil (2017), Lakatos (2017) are theoreticals references that base this study.