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Claridade
''Claridade'' (Portuguese for "light") was a literary review inaugurated in 1936 in the city of Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. It was part of a movement of cultural, social, and political emancipations of the Cape Verdean society. The founding contributors were Manuel Lopes, Baltasar Lopes da Silva, who used the poetic pseudonym of Osvaldo Alcântara, and Jorge Barbosa, born in the Islands of São Nicolau, Santiago and São Vicente, respectively. The magazine followed the steps of the Portuguese neorealist writers, and contributed to the building of "Cape Verdeanity", an autonomous cultural identity for the archipelago. ''Claridade'' revolutionized Cape Verdean literature. It set new standards of literary aesthetics and language, overcoming the conflict between Portuguese Romanticism—dominant during the 19th century—and the New Realism. Its founders aimed to free Cape Verdean writers from the Portuguese canons, awaken the Cape Verdean collective cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltasar Lopes Da Silva
Baltasar Lopes da Silva ( Caleijão, São Nicolau, 23 April 1907 - Lisbon, Portugal, 28 May 1989) was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of ''Claridade''. In 1947 he published '' Chiquinho'', considered the greatest Cape Verdean novel and '' O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde'' which describes different dialects of creoles of Cape Verde. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara. ''Ressaca'', his work of poems can be found on the CD ''Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama'' by Afonso Dias. Biography Baltasar Lopes da Silva was born in the village of Calejão on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde on April 23, 1907. He attended the seminary in Ribeira Brava in his native island. He later headed to Portugal and studied at the University of Lisbon. When he was at Lisbon, Baltasar Lopes studied with the most important w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrique Teixeira De Sousa
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa (September 19, 1919 in São Lourenço on the island of Fogo – March 3, 2006) was a doctor and author from Cape Verde. Biography Teixeira de Sousa graduated in 1945 in Lisbon with a degree in Medicine, having attended in the following year the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Porto. He later specialized in nutrition and initially went to East Timor to work as a doctor there. Teixeira de Sousa settled on his natal island of Fogo the following year, where he had an important role in maintaining minimal structures of public health. Later on, he worked on the island of São Vicente, until he emigrated shortly before the independence of the archipelago from Portugal, and moved to Oeiras, Portugal, where he lived until his death in 2006. Teixeira de Sousa wrote fiction, including novels, and was a pupil of Baltasar Lopes da Silva. He was a member of the Claridoso Movement, associated with the '' Claridade'' magazine. He is one of the icons of Cape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Cardoso (poet)
Pedro Monteiro Cardoso (13 September 1890 – 31 October 1942) was a Cape Verdean writer, poet and folklorist. Biography He was born in 1889 on the island of Fogo. Some sources stated his nationality was a Portuguese Guinean (now Bissau Guinean or Guinea-Bissauan) He was influenced with one of the earliest recorded writers of colonial Cape Verde especially poets including Eugénio Tavares and others including José Lopes da Silva of São Nicolau. He later moved to the colonial (now national) capital Praia where he wrote several books and poems especially of the classical-romantic related themes. In 1933, he published a work related to Cape Verdean folklore titled ''Folclore Caboverdiano'' which included traditional stories and music. His works would later be influenced in other works including poetry and short stories, these also appeared in the magazine-review ''Claridade'' published from 1936 to 1960. He died in the colonial capital Praia in 1942 at the age of 53, the ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Barbosa (writer)
Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa (25 May 1902 – 6 January 1971) was a Cape Verdean poet and writer. He collaborated in various reviews and Portuguese and Cape Verdean journals. The publication of his poetry anthology ''Arquipélago'' (''Archipelago'') in 1935 marked the beginning of Cape Verdean poetry. He was, along with Baltazar Lopes da Silva and Manuel Lopes, one of the three founders of the literary journal '' Claridade'' ("Clarity") in 1936, which marked the beginning of modern Cape Verdean literature. Biography Jorge Barbosa was born in the city of Praia, on the island of Santiago, Portuguese Cape Verde archipelago (then a territory of Portugal). Soon after, he moved to the island of São Vicente, where he spent his early years on — excluding his years of study in Lisbon. He published his first work titled ''Arquipélago'' (''Archipelago'') in 1935 which opened its doors to modern Cape Verdean literature and later demonstrated a complete change in rhetoric and thematic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Lopes Da Silva (poet)
José Lopes da Silva (15 January 1872 – 2 September 1962) was a Cape Verdean professor, journalist and poet.João Nobre de Oliveira, ''A Imprensa Cabo-Verdiana, 1820-1975.'' Macau, Fundação Macau e D.S.E.J., 1998. Biography He was born in Ribeira Brava, capital of the Island of São Nicolau. Around the beginning of the 20th century, he moved to Mindelo out west on the island of São Vicente, later he met family members there. During the pre-''Claridade'' generation which was before 1936, he was the three literary and cultural figures of Cape Verde, the others were Eugénio Tavares and Pedro Cardoso. He wrote some of his poems in Cape Verdean Creole including São Nicolau Creole as well as the São Vicente one. His poetic ideas were brought to other stories inside the ''Claridade'' review first published in 1936. He died at the age of 90 in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, at the time he was considered to be the first longest living writer in Cape Verde. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Lopes (writer)
Manuel António de Sousa Lopes (December 23, 1907 – January 25, 2005) was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a founder of the journal '' Claridade'', which contributed to the rise of Cape Verdean literature. Manuel Lopes wrote in Portuguese, using expressions typical for Cape Verdean Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. He was one of those responsible for describing world calamities of the droughts that caused several deaths in São Vicente and Santo Antão. Biography Manuel Lopes was born on December 23, 1907, in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde, which was then a territory of Portugal. He moved to Coimbra in mainland Portugal to attend secondary school. At the age of 16, he returned to São Vicente and started working at an English company that exploited a transatlantic telegraph cable. Aged 23, he started working for a similar Italian company, but he lost his job due to the Second World War and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morna (music)
The morna (pronunciation in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole: ) is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. Lyrics are usually in Cape Verdean Creole, and instrumentation often includes cavaquinho, clarinet, accordion, violin, piano and guitar. Morna is widely considered the national music of Cape Verde, as is the fado for Portugal, the tango for Argentina, the merengue for Dominican Republic, the rumba for Cuba, and so on. The best internationally known morna singer was Cesária Évora. Morna and other genres of Cape Verdean music are also played in Cape Verdean migrant communities abroad, especially in New England in the US, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, West Africa and parts of Latin America. As a music genre As a music genre, the morna is characterized by having a lento tempo, a 2-beat bar (sometimes 4)Brito, M., ''Breves Apontamentos sobre as Formas Musicais existentes em Cabo Verde'' — 1998 and in its most traditional form by having a harmonic structu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Cape Verde
The Culture of Cape Verde is rich, with a range of customs and practices common in the islands. Cuisine One of the most important aspects of Cape Verdean culture is the beverage ''grogue'', a strong rum made from distilled sugar cane on the islands of Santo Antao and Santiago. The beverage is made in towns such as Paul on Santo Antao and Cidade Velha on Santiago using a ''trapiche''. A variation of the drink is ''ponche'' (punch) which is sweeted with condensed milk or sugarcane molasses. Due to the intoxication on consuming ''grogue'', it is consumed by many Cape Verdean musicians seeking inspiration. Corn and beans are staples of Cape Verdean cuisine. Also popular are rice, fried potatoes, cassava, and vegetables such as carrots, kale, squash and fish and meat such as tuna, sawfish, lobster, chicken, grilled pork and eggs. One legacy of the Portuguese on the islands is olives and Alentejo wines which are still imported. One type of Cape Verdean stew is a '' cachupa'' which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Vicente, Cape Verde
São Vicente (Portuguese for " Saint Vincent") is one of the Barlavento Islands, the northern group within the Cape Verde archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, off the West African coast. It is located between the islands of Santo Antão and Santa Luzia, with the Canal de São Vicente separating it from Santo Antão. Geography The island is roughly rectangular in shape with an area of . From east to west it measures and from north to south .Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística The island, of |
Augusto Casimiro
Augusto Casimiro dos Santos (11 May 1889 – 23 September 1967) was a Portuguese journalist, a poet and political commentator. Biography Augusto Casimiro dos Santos was born in Amarante, he later studied at its primary school and lyceum. He attended a military school when he was 16 and was assigned in place with the Coimbra Infantry Regiments. He continued to study at the University of Coimbra. He soon revealed himself as a poet and a chronicler, he became an author in 1906 and published his first periodical contribution in the 1910s and were related for raising its republican ideals. As a lieutenant, he took part in the Portuguese Expeditionary Force in Flanders from 1917 to 1918. He was decorated with the Cross of the War, fourragère of the Tower of the Sword, Order of Christ, medal of Gold of Good Services, Military Cross, Legion of Honour, Order of Avis and the Order of Santiago where he was promoted to a captain during the campaign. After the Great War, he taught at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Pedro
António Pedro da Costa (9 December 1909, in Portuguese Cape Verde, Santiago, Praia – 17 August 1966, in Caminha, Moledo, Portugal) was a Portuguese painter, potter, journalist and writer. Biography He was born to a prominent colonial family from the Cape Verde Islands, son of José Maria da Costa (b. Lisbon, c. 1870) and wife Elizabeth Savage de Paula Rosa. However, his maternal grandmother was Irish and English, and he cited this influence of the "Celtic spirit" as an influence in his work. In addition because his family spoke English, and sent their children to English schools, he was able to work as a journalist with the BBC in London between 1944 and 1945. He moved to Portugal when he was four. Later he attended Liceu Pedro Nunes in Lisbon for two years and afterwards attended Nuno Álvares Institute, Companhia de Jesus in A Guarda, Galicia, Spain, his sixth year was in Santarém, Coimbra's lyceum during his seventh year where he wrote the journal ''O Bicho''. He att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mindelo
Mindelo is a port cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 in the northern part of the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde. Mindelo is also the seat of the parish of Nossa Senhora da Luz, and the municipality of São Vicente. The city is home to 93% of the entire island's popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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