When characters sit at the table: Senna Fernandes’ and Luís Cardoso’s narrative

Abstract

Senna Fernandes and Luis Cardoso are important writers in the Portuguese literary panorama and provide literary pictures about the Orient that allow the reader to expand the Lusophone experience in various perspectives: social, ethnic, historical, cultural and literary. This exercise brings a literary approach that makes the relationship between Macau and Timor more visible. Synchronously, focusing on the moments spent at the table, the analysis makes explicit identity clashes, ethnic and religious conflicts and certain historical moments that occurred between the characters in the first half of the 20^th century.