The thesis Fissures of the portuguese colonial frame: visuality and worldview in the work of José Luandino Vieira aims to interrogate the narrative potentialities that open up in the relations between the plastic forms and the literary images constructed by the Portuguese-Angolan writer José Luandino Vieira in three distinct works: in the book Papéis da Prisão (2015), compilation of 17 notebooks produced by the author during the period of imprisonment lived between the years of 1962 and 1971 and in the novels O livro dos rios. De rios velhos e guerrilheiros I (2006) and O livro dos guerrilheiros. De rios velhos e guerrilheiros II (2009). The intention is to understand some resources used by the writer to face and upset the hegemonic language of the portuguese colonial frame, such as the denaturalization of the portuguese language and the strategy of visual thinking that makes it possible to transfigure reality. In the theoretical-methodological perspective, I resort to theories that help to understand both the mechanisms of anti-colonial struggle and the use of using the image as part of its aesthetic-political project.