Hiperidentidade e colonialidade: encruzilhada e demarcação de imaginários

Eduardo Lourenço ended up being responsible for a systematic, consistent and coherent reflection on the people to which he always belonged, with detachment and distance, an extremely demanding challenge for any scholar, especially when placed in his own cause. Portraying the specificity of a people, in this case, his own, with seriousness and honesty, is always an overwhelming, painful and often slippery exercise. The work of this singular thinker allows us to revisit and reassess the profile of an imaginary that, according to him, crossing the duality of “being Portuguese” and “being a colonizer” as a structuring factor, translates the permanence of attitudes, perceptions, beliefs and myths in which the excess of identity (hyperidentity) intersects with the still persistent denial of the other (coloniality), accentuated by the growing and massive flow of migration wich has Europe as its destination. The productivity and breadth of his thinking undeniably contribute to strengthening the discussion, always incandescent and inconclusive, now in the light of globalization, on the theme of the identity of African literatures and of the individuals themselves, as effects of European domination.