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Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Rhode Island College

Poetry; Cape Verde; Cape Verdeanness; postcolonial; Identity;

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A Study Of Cape Verdeanness In Postcolonial Cape Verdean Poetry, David Joseph Alpert Apr 2013

A Study Of Cape Verdeanness In Postcolonial Cape Verdean Poetry, David Joseph Alpert

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Cape Verdeanness is another name for Cape Verdean cultural identity. Postcolonial Cape Verdeanness refers to Cape Verdeanness as it has expressed itself since July 5, 1975, the first day of Cape Verdean independence. Postcolonial Cape Verdeanness has previously been described at length in the social sciences scholarship. Postcolonial Cape Verdeanness has previously been implicitly rather than explicitly represented in descriptions of postcolonial Cape Verdean poetry in the scholarly literature.

This study is a first of its kind consideration of postcolonial Cape Verdeanness. It is also the first time Cape Verdeanness of any kind has been explicitly represented by means of …