Orlanda Amarílis

Orlanda Amarílis Lopes Rodrigues Fernandes Ferreira, known as Orlanda Amarílis (Assomada, Santa Catarina, Cape Verde, 1924), is a Cape Verdean writer.^[1] She is considered to be a noteworthy writer of fiction whose main literary themes include perspectives on women’s writing,^[2] with depictions of various aspects of the lives of Cape Verdean women as well as depictions of the Cape Verdean diaspora.^[1]

Biography

Amarílis is the daughter of Armando Napoleão Roiz Fernandes and Alice Lopes da Silva Fernandes. In 1945, she married Cape Verdean writer Manuel Ferreira,^[3] and the couple have two sons, Sérgio Manuel Napoleão Ferreira (born in Cape Verde) e Hernâni Donaldo Napoleão Ferreira (born in Goa). Amarílis belongs to a family of literary figures, including Baltazar Lopes da Silva and her father, Armando Napoleão Roiz Fernandes, who published the first Cape Verdean Creole dictionary in Cape Verde.^[3]

In the city of Mindelo, São Vicente island, Cape Verde, Amarílis completed her primary studies, as well as her secondary studies (high school) in the Liceu Gil Eanes school.^[3] She then moved to Goa, and lived in the capital, Panaji (Pangim) for six years where she completed her primary teacher training (Magistério Primário).^[3] Years later, she finished two courses in Lisbon: Pedagogical Sciences (Curso de Ciências Pedagógicas) as well as a course of elementary education supervision (inspector do ensino básico.)^[3]

For professional reasons as well as for reasons related to her participation in cultural interventions, Amarílis and her husband traveled to various countries including Angola, Canada, Egypt, Goa, Mozambique, Nigeria, Spain, Sudan, and the United States.^[3] She traveled worldwide and became a member of the Portuguese Movement Against Apartheid (Movimento Português Contra o Apartheid), the Portuguese Movement for Peace (Movimento Português para a Paz) and the Portuguese Association of Writers (Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (APE)).^[1]

Career

Amarílis began her career with her collaboration in the Cape Verdean magazine Certeza in 1944^[3] and many of her short stories were added to various Cape Verdean literature anthologies.^[1] After her work with Certeza, she contributed additional short stories to other magazines such as COLÓQUIO / Letras, África, Loreto 13. Many of her short stories are translated in Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, and Russian.^[3]

Literary works

Short story anthologies

Short story anthologies (Portuguese Language)

• Escrita e Combate (1976)
• Contos – O Campo da Palava (1985)
• Fantástico no Feminino (1985)
• Afecto às Letras – Obra Coletiva de Homenangem da Literatura Contemporânea a Jacinto do Prado Coelho (1988)

Short story anthologies (German Language)

• Frauen in der Dritten Welt (1986)

Short story anthologies (English Language)

• Across the Atlantic: An Anthology of Cape Verdean Literature (1986)^[3]
• A New Reader’s Guide to African Literature (1983)^[2]

Short story books

• Cais-do-Sodré té Salamansa (1974)
• Ilhéu dos Pássaros (1983)
• A Casa dos Mastros (1989)

Children’s book

• Facécias e Peripécias^[1]

Further reading

Abdala Junior, Benjamin. “Globalização, Cultura e Identidade em Orlanda Amarílis.” Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies (PLCS) Vol. 8 (Spring 2002): 213-26. Print.

Gérard, Albert. “The Literature of Cape Verde.” African Arts Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1968): 62-64. Print.

McNab, Gregory. “Sexual Difference: The Subjection of Women in Two Stories by Orlanda Amarílis.” Luso-Brazilian Review Vol. 24, No. 1 (Summer 1987): 59-68. Print.

Tutikian, Jane. Inquietos Olhares: A construção do processo de identidade nacional nas obras de Lídia Jorge e Orlanda Amarílis. São Paulo: Editora Arte & Ciência, 1999. Print.

See also

• Cape Verde
• List of Cape Verdeans
• Cape Verdean Creole
• Cais-do-Sodré té Salamansa
• Lusophone

External links

• http://home.no/tabanka/literature.htm

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Orlanda Amaríls” Infopédia. Porto Editora, 2003-2009. Web. 18 October 2009
2. ^ ^{a b} Biblos. Enciclopédia Verbo das Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa & São Paulo. 1995.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Ferreira, Manuel. Notícia Bibliográfica. Cais-do-Sodré té Salamansa by Orlanda Amarílis. 1ª ed. Lisboa: ALAC, 1974. p.7-8

This article incorporates information from the revision as of 1 December 2009 of the equivalent article on the Portuguese Wikipedia.

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