90 anos da Revista Claridade

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In 1936, a Cape Verdean group used a literary magazine to defy Salazar's regime and talk about hunger and abandonment.

The episode begins by announcing a commemorative session in São Vicente for the 90th anniversary of the magazine Claridade and the launch of the Claridade Chair. Guest Manuel Britsmed is introduced as a participant who will launch a book. Britsmed frames Claridade's 1936 founding by a generation born between 1901 and 1909 as a radical act to think about Cape Verde under colonial rule, bypassing censorship to address hunger and abandonment. He describes it as an epistemological break that founded Cape Verdean modernity. Britsmed notes that 50 years later, in 1986, President Aristides Pereira recognized Claridade's importance, calling it Cape Verde's literary independence. The discussion shifts to the Claridade Chair, a partnership between the University of Mindelo, the University of International Studies of Rome, and publisher Rosa de Porcelana, aimed at internationalizing Cape Verdean thought. Britsmed highlights this as a civil society initiative involving private entities. He then details his book, 'A History of Cape Verdean Ideas,' covering 1936 to 2026. Britsmed outlines different regimes of the word: from 1936 to 1960, words described and founded the nation; from 1963 to 1974, words became ideological with figures like Onésimo Silveira; post-1975, words were institutionalized by the single-party state; from 1991 to 2010, words pluralized with democratic reopening; from 2010 to 2020, words were rediscovered with a focus on memory and creole identity; and from 2020 to 2026, digital saturation leads to fragmented discourse. Britsmed emphasizes his methodology is open to critique and based on his experience, not claiming absolute truth. The episode concludes with his homage to Claridade and São Vicente.

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