THE GOVERNED HOUSE BY THE MATRIARCH IN THE GOAN FICTION OF VIMALA DEVI

Abstract

The objectiv of the study is, on the one hand, to rescue a Portuguese-speaking writer, silenced by the canon of Portugal, wo lives in Barcelona, at the age of 89: the Goan Vimala Devi, literary pseudonym of Teresa da Piedade de Baptista Almeida. Poetess, literary critic, painter, translator and storytelles, Teresa is considered a writer of the diaspora, since she emigrated to Lisbon, at the age of 26 (1958), and wrote her work - lyrical and narrative - far from her native Goa, which, in 1530, became the capital of the Portuguese Empire in the East (Portuguese Indies), and in 1961, it was annexed to the Indian Union. And, on the other hand, to analyze em Devis´s short story o Genro Comensal (1963), the issue of matriarchy in an illustrious Christian Family, who needed descendants. The study of the narrative about brother-in-law´s his only function, to generate an heir, is based on Bhabha´s concepts of hybrid culture and estrangement, as well as reflections on matriarchy, patriarchy and the capitalismo, by Engel, Pantem, Narvaz e Koller.

Keywords: Goan literature. Vimala Devi. Canon. Matriarchy. Power. Genre.