MINORIAS AFROIBÉRICAS NA LITERATURA MIGRANTE DA GUINÉ EQUATORIAL
AFRO-IBERIAN MINORITIES IN THE MIGRANT LITERATURE OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Author(s): Susan A. De Oliveira
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: literature; migration; minorities; Equatorial Guinea; Ávila Laurel
Summary/Abstract: The literature of Equatorial Guinea is known especially for the work of writers in exile in Spain, where they were able to exercise the freedom of expression, away from the repression and censorship installed by Equatorial Guinean dictatorial governments soon after the country ceased to be a Spanish colony in 1968. This literary re-foundation in exile is a condition that presents significant differences in relation to post-colonial African literatures since it is not directly affiliated to the discourse of nationalism, but rather constitutes itself as a “literature of the world” and as a “minority literature”, which are also characteristics of migrant literature. In this article I intend to discuss these issues, with special emphasis on how these matters appear in the work of Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, an Equatorial Guinean writer exiled in Barcelona. Ávila Laurel writes in Spanish and reclaims through his writing his mother tongue, the Fa D’Ambô (a Portuguese-based Creole spoken in Annobón Island), from which the writer problematizes the process of colonial and national post-colonial marginalization of linguistics minorities in African-Iberian literature.

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