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DATA : 29/10/2026
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Luanda and Lisbon: traces of the African diaspora transit in the novels That Hair and Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

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Afropean literature, Identity, afrodiaspora, Djaimilia Pereira. 

PÁGINAS: 180
GRANDE ÁREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
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This thesis, titled Between Luanda and Lisbon: the marks of afrodiasporic transit in the novels Esse Cabelo and Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso by Djaimillia Pereira de Almeida, seeks to demonstrate the marks of afrodiasporic transit in the literary production of the writer, pointing out the issues of diaspora and identity as thematic and substantial matter of her production, in order to point out how this characteristic is intrinsic to her authorial identity as a diasporic subject. The present investigation is built through research of a qualitative, bibliographical and interpretive nature, analytical and comparative reading with focus the forms of construction of the protagonist characters the marks of afrodiasporic memory and identity, the narrative voices and of presents the writing mechanisms that demonstrate such characteristics in the corpus of the novels chosen for analysis. It starts from the hypothesis that afrodiasporic transit is one of the structuring elements of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's writing manifested both in the mention of geographical displacements and in the experiences of negotiation, fragmentation and identity restructuring of her characters in the works. Another hypothesis is that Mila, in Esse Cabelo (2015), and Cartola and Aquiles, in Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso (2017), are constructed in constant tension between different cultural locuses between memories and belonging, between conflicts and movements, with fluid identities, in crisis, shedding light on the historical and subjective effects of colonialism and the afrodiaspora, with fluid identities, in crisis. Being so, another hypothesis that guides the investigation is that the representation of these displaced subjects breaks with the idea of immigrant and brings them closer to the afropean experience characterized by the search for belonging and recognition in spaces in which identity do not fully integrate neither in the African space nor in the model of European belonging. Whose nomenclatures and definitions are “afropeans” who occupy the virtual utopian space of “afropea”, terms studied by Johnny Pitts (2022) and Leonora Miano (2025) respectively, used to name the identities coming from the plural experiences of the subjects in the context of diaspora, as well as, because these are no longer in Africa and nor feel integrated as Europeans, from there claim a place of recognition of their identities outside the prism of immigrant in the European social context. All these phenomena coming from the process of the afrodiaspora are frequent themes in the artistic manifestations of these subjects as individuals crossed by the experience in the diaspora. Being afro-descendant writers who compose a black literature on European soil, the ethnic and cultural identity issues are significant substance of their artistic manifestations and literary productions. It is what can be inferred from the analysis of the first works of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. The critical and theoretical corpus of this research is anchored mainly by the reflections of Fanon (2020), Gilroy (2012), Du Bois (2021), (Munanga (2018), Matta (2025), among others, which dialogue about the social conditions of black subjects in diaspora and their cultural relations, as well as the artistic manifestations of these subjects, above all, in literature. 

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Interno - 46475010 - AGNALDO RODRIGUES DA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - LARISSA DA SILVA LISBOA SOUZA - UFLA
Presidente - 54869003 - MARINEI ALMEIDA
Externa à Instituição - ROSANGELA SARTESCHI - USP
Interna - 83238001 - VERA LUCIA DA ROCHA MAQUEA