Ruy Duarte de Carvalho: travel, speech and poetry

Abstract

Ruy Duarte de Carvalho was a great representative of the Angolan literature, however, its importance has been little evident. In this sense, this work aims to reduce the gap on the recognition of its place among the current African authors. Thereby, we will make a brief demonstration of his work, which was based on research carried out for him with a Namib desert society, Kuvale. For Ruy Duarte, space transcends the limits of physical reality, since it is also the place of creation and fiction. To the other (Kuvale) that space (living) seems to represent the extension of life itself, since that belonging relationship you can see the establishment of a collective bargaining agreement between the subjects and the place. Ruy Duarte committed much of his life in the study of these relations, proposing to go live with them. The trip, speech and poetry were the vehicles used to express that experience gave him. Therefore, these issues also guide the development of this work.