The woman as a subordinate subject in the short story ‘Liberdade Adiada’, by Dina Salústio

Abstract

In the light of the post-colonial feminist perspective, this article intends to analyze the short story Liberdade Adiada of
the Cape Verdean author Dina Salústio, which integrates the work Mornas eram as noites (2002). Through this work,
it is intended to rescue the history of Cape Verdean woman and her condition as a muted and erased subject. There
is still much to discuss on the issues involving the female subject in a peripheral country. Based on postmodern
theories, we analyze aspects such as subalternity, the female subject and her condition. To speak of African literature
as a whole, we will have the support of authors such as Mazrui (2010), Santos (2003) and Gandhi (1998). To deal with
topics such as feminism and post-colonialism, we will be based on readings in Silva (2014), Bahri (2013), Spivak
(2010). And on female authorship in Cape Verde, we will have Gomes (2015) as the core. The present study aims to
treat the emergence of the construction of a female identity of Cape Verdean woman.