Memória na obra “É Nosso Solo Sagrado da Terra”, de Alda Espírito Santo

Abstract

Alda Espírito Santos, in her work É nosso o solo sagrado da terra (1978), presents through poems a reinterpretation of the struggles, challenges and aspirations of the São Tomé population, highlighting their experiences and difficulties. Her writing became effective in conveying silenced voices and in promoting awareness about the issues of inequality and colonial oppression. In this regard, her poems give voice to the marginalized, emphasizing the importance of equality, dignity, and justice for everyone, regardless of their gender or age. Therefore, this work uses a memorialist perspective to analyze the poems that fit into this line of research, since the author recalls events from the past as a way of encouraging the libertarian spirit in the face of colonial oppression. Given this situation, the attention of this research is focused on theoretical studies on poetry, memory and the basis for the formation of Santomean literature. The study is qualitative, bibliographic, literary critical, based on the theoretical vision of Bosi (1977), Candau (2005; 2011), Cortez and Rodrigues (2005), Crippa e Laranjeira (2018), Eliot (1991), Fanon (1968), Fraga (2006), Halbwachs (2006), Mata e Padilha (2006), Margarido (1994), Negueiros (1895), Paz (1982), Pollak (1989), Schlegel, Seibert (2015), among others. The work É nosso o solo sagrado da terra highlights how literature provides reflections on the place that minorities occupy in society and how collective memory is fundamental to its organization.