The South transatlantic space, movements and influences in journalistic writing in Angola and Latin America: crónica

Abstract

Cronica, a word differently written in different varieties of Portuguese or Spanish is a truly transatlantic genre of journalism writing, in two languages originating on the Iberian Peninsula. However, the geographical background to this paper is located in the South Atlantic, in the movements and influences experienced in the territories of Colombia, Cuba and Angola, with Garcia Marquez as a model acknowledged by Cuban Enrique Núñez, and Angolan Luis Fernando. Core object of this article is the identity debate depicted in the texts, showing Cuban and Angolan societies undergoing change, and open or latent conflict in the last two decades of the 20th century and early 21st. Themes, journalistic techniques and structure of work by Enrique Núñez and Luis Fernando will be analysed, emphasizing the importance of the in/voluntary encounters of two journalists from a common transatlantic space, on a process of mutual reconnaissance. It is finally proposed in this article that the authors under scrutiny incorporate in their texts one of the features of Maria Zambrano’s work. According to the author of Claros del bosque, her writings were an author’s
true offer, a characteristic also visible in these texts.