The intertwist between Brazil and Cape Verde:

an afropolitan analysis of Você, Brasil, by Jorge Barbosa

Abstract

This study aims to highlight the Afropolitan thought present in the verses of the poem "Você, Brasil" by Jorge Barbosa (1956), considering the sometimes similar relations between Brazil and Cape Verde, an African country that, like other countries on the continent, gained its independence belatedly. This situation is reflected in the artistic and cultural process of the continent, which sought its identity and philosophical current to detach from Europe. This research, based on bibliographic analyses, uses as theoretical support, in addition to Mbembe (2015), Monteiro (2020), who explain the existence of a different philosophy from the central or colonial philosophy of domination and point to the recovery of a stolen identity and identity under construction, which, about the Cape Verdean poem, proposes a reflection on a rapprochement between countries that were the focus of exploitation during the colonial period, such as Brazil and Cape Verde, as well as colonizing countries like Portugal, presenting markedly cultural relations. This theoretical approach leads to Laranjeira (1985) and Santos (1989), who discuss Cape Verdean literature, developed and surrounded by European aspects, similar to Brazilian literature, which sought its freedom of thought and literary weaving, presenting the reality of its people. This work also seeks the contribution of studies on the theme and reports that, like the Afropolitan philosophical current, helped understand this cultural entanglement.