CAPE VERDE: THE AFRICAN JOURNEY OF FLORA TRISTAN

Abstract

This work is a result of a ongoing postdoctoral research that contemplates the passage of Flora Tristan through Cape Verde in 1833, the historical local background and presents an analysis of the writer’s memorial narratives with a literary journalism approach in the La Praya chapter from her autobiographical work Peregrinations of a Pariah. Throughout the sea crossing, the ship where Flora Tristan was travelling to Peru was forced into making a stopover in the City of Praia, when it was under the colonial and slavery-oriented Portuguese regime. The scenes of violence and misery that Flora had never experienced before awoke her sensibility, expressing her outrage against human exploitation, especially women on her book. The theme will be recurrent on her travel narratives that she writes afterwards.