Abstract:
In this article, we examine some traces of hyper-contemporary in Portuguese-speaking literatures. For this, we take the idea of contemporary as the “darkness of our time”, formulated by Giorgio Agamben. In this regard, we argue that the “darkness of our time” are the problems related to identity crossings of the borders of modernity. Thus, we will analyze the works Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você, by Brazilian Luiz Ruffato, and O meu nome é Legião, by the Portuguese Lobo Antunes, which represent the question of Brazilian and African immigrants in Portugal. As a theoretical contribution, we will use concepts of Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Edward Saïd, João Guimarães Rosa, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Margarida Calafate Ribeiro. The results indicate that a hyper-contemporaryness in Lusophone community is extremely related to the colonial question, because identifying marks (language, nationality, social class, gender, religiousness) are imposed or claimed from the borders that remain of the empire.
Keywords:
Hyper-contemporary; Immigration; Empire