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| Title: | Islands of Sexuality: Theories and Histories of Creolization in Cape Verde |
| Author: | Rodrigues, Isabel P.B. Fê o |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 83-103 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Cape Verde Portugal |
| Subjects: | Creoles colonialism sexuality History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3559320 |
| Abstract: | If the role it played and continues to play in explanations of creolization is analysed, sexuality becomes a unique conduit for understanding the lived cultural contradictions and internal tensions of social life in the colonies. An examination of sexual tropes can reveal much about both the rigidity and the vulnerability of colonial forms of stratification and the concomitant blurring of racial boundaries. Colonialism in Cape Verde, as elsewhere, was not detached from the domain of intimate social relations and the role sexuality played in the biological and symbolic reproduction of colonial societies. This essay examines the role of sexuality in the Cape Verde creolization process, which began to develop in the islands shortly after Portuguese settlement in the 15th century. The essay also suggests that colonial ideologies - in this case the use of sexuality to explain the formation of Creole identities - were not fabrications of a distant metropole to be exported, consumed, and contested in the colonies. Rather, such tropes often found inspiration and co-authorship in the social practices of the colonies. Moreover, Creole populations were in a privileged position to co-author and to transform colonial ideologies, often subverting the outcome into a political project of their own. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
