Gonçalves, António Aurélio

Gonçalves, António Aurélio

▪ Cape Verdean writer
born Sept. 25, 1901, São Vicente, Cape Verde Islands
died Sept. 30, 1984

      Portuguese African story writer, novelist, critic, and teacher whose works challenge the traditional social role of women in the Cape Verde Islands.

      Gonçalves attended the University of Lisbon and later taught history and philosophy at the Liceu Gil Eanes in São Vicente. All of Gonçalves' noveletas (his coinage for novella) and other fiction have Cape Verdean women as central characters, and in this regard he is unique among Lusophone African writers. His short story “História de Tempo Antigo” (1960; “Story of Former Times”) involves the death of the narrator's mother and emphasizes familial bonds between mother and child. Pródiga (1956; “The Prodigal Daughter”) examines the life of a wayward daughter who leaves home, has an affair, and returns to the fold. O Enterro de Nhá Candinha Sena (1957; “The Burial of Mrs. Candinha Sena”) delves into the narrator's childhood relationship with a childless woman of great kindness and character. Noite de vento (1970; “Night of Wind”) and Virgens loucas (1971; “Crazy Virgins”) also have female protagonists. In the former, he created an extremely beautiful dark-skinned woman who follows her own desires, and in the latter, he paralleled the book of Matthew with a story about three prostitutes. Gonçalves' world and his women revolve around the Cape Verdean social dilemma, a society in flux, and emigration.

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