Azorean Women and literary creation - A MUST READ

Women's literary contribution in the portuguese region of the Azores
In the recent past the Azores have experienced a literary and cultural boom. The Página GIacial, a now extinct literary supplement that was prominently included during the 60's and 70's in a daily newspaper in Angra do Heroismo (island of Terceira) was to give voice to a whole generation. of writers. This richness of the life of the mind in one of Europe's most isolated regions was initiated during the past century by such writers and poets as Antero de Quental, Roberto de Mesquita and Vitorino Nemésio. It is among the present generation that we propose to analyse what we believe to be the most prevailing traits of Azorean literature: the particular notion of time and space, which epitomizes a characteristic pattern of the Azorean experience given the peripheral Atlantic location of these Portuguese islands: This whole notion of existence vis-à-vis the rest of the world has been profoundly interiorized by language and style of Azorean women writers, and has been the acute sensation of their insularity. This has resulted in a new significant rhetorical mode of looking at island reality, and thus opening new avenues of thought and vision of these authors place in the world.
By Profs. VAMBERTO FREITAS E ADELAIDE See Women Writers