Island and memory: a reading of <i>O útero da casa</i>, by Conceição Lima

Abstract

In order to propose an intensive reading throughout the poetic of Conceição Lima and pursue the subtle marks of identity, memory, affection and hometown reconstruction or the return to the original place or even the affection place where Lima wanders, it is vital to travel through the home of herself, exactly through the poetic of the piece O útero da casa (2004); since in A dolorosa raiz do micondó (2008) the sense of identity and the search for the Africanity -- not only for São Tome and Príncipe - has been widened towards a more collective than intimate, more African than from San Tome, and in O país de Akendenguê (2011) this poetess sings her relationship with Africa and the people who were born from their encounter with Arts, friends, affective and political references and, above all, she puts into verses/songs her musical reference, the Gabonese Pierre Akendenguê. Her first work - although not the poetess's first literary manifestation -, is taken as the starting point: a reunion of poetry that is a type of intimate account of the parturition of the Nation and also of the Personalities hovering over the land and their mythical references.