Cape Verdean Literature and Film

Literature

• The Preliterary Tradition
  • The Nho Lobo and Sancho Stories
  • Tenporal Sta Ben - Un Storia di Nho Lobu

  
  

• The Early Writers - The Generation of Ambiguity

  Antonio Januario Leite, Guilherme Ernesto, Custodio Duarte, Jose Lopes, Pedro Cardoso (Afro), Eugenio Tavares.
  

  
  

• The Claridade Movement - Search for Identity

  Baltasar Lopes da Silva (Osvaldo Alcântara), Jorge Barbosa, Manuel Lopes, António Aurélio Gonçalves, Jaime Figueiredo, Joao Lopes.
  

  • Ambiente
  • Caderno de um Ilhéu
  • Arquipélago
  • Chiquinho
  • Chuva Braba
  • Flagelados do Vente Leste

  
  

• The Post-WW2 Literary Journals
  • Certeza - Manuel Ferreira
  • Seló
  • Suplementa Cultural
  • Boletim dos Alunos do Liceu Gil Eanes

  
  

• Nova Largarda (Geracao?) (New Departure)

  Ovídio Martins, António Nunes, Onésimo Silveira

  • Consciencialização na literatura Cabo-Verdiana

  
  

• Writers of the Post-Independence Period

  Armenio Viera, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, Vera Duarte, Corsino Fortes, T.T. Tiofe, Oswaldo Osorio, Teixeira de Sousa, Orlanda Amarilis, Tome Varela da Silva, Kaoberdiano Dambara, Luis Romano, Manuel Veiga, Nuno Miranda, Joao Varela, Euricles Rodrigues, Germano Almeida, Alirio Kinoru, Camilo Graca, Jose Luis Hopffer Almada, Pedro Gregorio Lopes

  • Mirabilis de Veias ao Sol
  • Portugal/Crioulo - Vladimir Nobre Monteiro.
  • "Kriolu" - a poem by Lela.

  
  

• On-line material and collections
  • Poetas (Poets) de Cabo Verde
  • More Capeverdean poetry
    - Yolanda Morazzo, Oswaldo Osório, Onesimo Silveira, Virgilio Pires, more. (Carlos Pinto-Pereira Compilation)

  
  

• Selected References
  • The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa.

Film

1. Mortu Nega - - Flora Gomes
2. "Po di Sangui (Blood Wood)" - Flora Gomes. (a film about Guinea Bissau of interest to those interested in Cabo Verde)
3. Song of the Badiu - Gai Zantzinger
4. Ilhéu de Contenda - Directed by Leão Lopes. Based on a book by Henrique Texeira de Sousa [1] - [2]
5. Sans Soleil
6. L'arcipelago del Sahel
7. Vivere Senza- Isole di Capo Verde - (this and the previous are in the "european standard" and they are produced by NOVA-T Produzioni Televisive)
8. A Tree (Un Arbre) (1986, 26 min 05 sec) - a documentary by the National Film Board of Canada about a reforestation project on Santiago.
9. Prinsen av Fogo- a Norwegian movie for kids
10. Muelher Caboverdiana, Hoje e Amanha- a Peace Corps film in Portuguese and Criolo about the development of female rights and her role in CV society.
11. Harpoon Fisherman of Achab
12. Cancer of Betrayal - (20 min videocasette) - The last speech by Amilcar Cabral

    (Please notify us of any films not on this list. Thanks/Obrigadu.)

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