António Jacinto: A poesia negritudinista como forma de resistência colonial

Abstract

This work has the main purpose of presenting the ethnological, ideological and literary contribution of António Jacinto's negritudist poetry as a form of resistance to Portuguese colonization. António Jacinto, son of portuguese parents, poet-politician of the Generation of the Message and the Movement of the New Intellectuals of Angola. It serves poetry as a weapon of combat, chanting the black man's disgrace within portuguese segregationist colonialism, thus creating discomfort in society at the time. He was able to sing and value black cultural elements in all their aspects, from birth to death, always appealing with his poetic and political voice for the recognition of the idiosyncrasies of Africa.