A lesser lyrics: for a Literary Theory of the African Literatures in Portuguese

Abstract

The focusing on issues relating to the paradigms of the Literary Theory in those texts produced within a certain ethical-aesthetical context most often makes it impossible to understand the literary productions from outside the Eurocentric axis. As a disciplinary field, and due to the very building of its aesthetic criteria, Literary Theory tends to let aside the most recent literary production, mainly that from the emerging peripheries. By analyzing some poems by Ana Paula Tavares, a poet from Angola, the present essay will discuss the limits of the Literary Theory in face of the postcolonial literary production.