Na tua cor tem luta: a luta anticolonial em Angola e os espaços do narrar de Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928-1990)

Abstract

The purpose of the thesis is to investigate a new vision of Portuguese colonialism in Angola from the perspective of the intellectual Mário Pinto de Andrade and the spaces in which he traveled during his life. My objective is to approach the topic against the dominant view, committed to presenting the decolonization process that starts with the trajectory of the writer, politician and essayist Mário Pinto de Andrade. This thesis starts from the first colonial experiences of Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928) until his death in 1990. During this period Angola experienced the facets of Portuguese colonialism. The city of Luanda presents itself as a space in which mixed-race, black and white populations were concentrated, which led to an increase in racial and social segregation. At this juncture, Mário Pinto de Andrade assumes a privileged place for belonging to one of Luanda's traditional families. For this reason, Mário Pinto de Andrade has the opportunity to study in the Portuguese metropolis - Lisbon. And it is in Portugal that the new bonds of friendship, the new spaces of sociability contribute to its intellectual and revolutionary growth. Mário Pinto de Andrade leaves Portugal and goes to Paris, which becomes a territorial space full of meanings. His participation in Présence Africaine represented a new way of belonging to a new world that promotes the interbreeding of African man. Alongside personal events, the process of affective deterritorialization of Angola, Mário Pinto de Andrade experiences the ubiquity and dissent of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). Mário Pinto de Andrade experiences identity conflicts in the context of the national liberation struggle, namely the struggle for Angolan independence and the Ativa Revolt in 1974. At the same time, he found himself silenced or preferred to remain silent within his eternal exile. This entire historical context is inserted after the Second World War. The methodological approach to reading, analyzing and investigating these sources will be through the cartographic method, in particular, using Suely Rolnick's approach. To better articulate this research, a dialogue will be maintained with the theoretical propositions of Yi-Fu Tuan, Luís Alberto Brandão, Elizabeth Jelin e Maurice Agulhon.