Arquipélago (Arquipélago in Portuguese) is a Capeverdean poetry book written by Jorge Barbosa in 1935.[1] It was published in ICL; later it would be published in Claridade. The probability of the literary work is the most common in Cape Verde.[clarification needed] It opened the doors to modern Cape Verdean literature and later demonstrated a complete change in rhetoric and thematic poetry in Cape Verde; it formed one of the elements that led to the creation of the Claridade review a year after the publication of the book.[1] Along with Claridade, Baltazar Lopes participated with Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa with founded members of the review and the name was the movement in the main activists of the same.

Arquipélago
AuthorJorge Barbosa
LanguagePortuguese
PublisherICL
Publication date
1935
Publication placeCape Verde
Media typePrint

The story is set in different parts of the Cape Verdean archipelago, which at the time was in colonial hands. The book features some poems.

References

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  1. ^ a b Barbosa, Jorge. Arquipélago Mindelo: ICL, 1935.

Further reading

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  • dos Santos, Elsa Rodrigues, As máscaras poéticas de Jorge Barbosa e a mundividência cabo-verdiana, Caminho, Lisbon, 1989, ISBN 972-21-0422-5
  • Silva, Carlos Alberto Gomes da, "An Introduction to Capeverdean Poetry of Portuguese Expression." in Emerging Literatures, ed. Nethersole, Reingard. Bern, Peter Lang, 1990. pp. 91–105. ISBN 9783261043085.