“And I, whole, was a solid no”: colonial violence in A costa dos murmúrios and Caderno de memórias coloniais

• Autor(a) principal: Rückert, Gustavo Henrique
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Forli, Cristina Arena
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Abril (Niterói)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/revistaabril/article/view/58671
• topic: Colonialismo; Violência contra a mulher; A costa dos murmúrios; Caderno de memórias coloniais; Colonialism; Violence against women; A costa dos murmúrios; Caderno de memórias coloniais

This work aims to analyze the novels A costa dos murmúrios, by Lídia Jorge, published in 1988, and Caderno de memórias coloniais, by Isabela Figueiredo, published in 2009. Both novels feature women as narrators who live under the violent Portuguese colonialist regime in Mozambique, focusing on the colonial war and the process of colonization and decolonization, respectively. Colonialism, as a political and ideological system, profoundly marked the experience of these women insofar as it sought to make them, like the territories, objects of male domination. Thus, we are interested in analyzing how the relations of violence occur in colonial and post-colonial societies. To this end, our reading is guided by the work of authors such as Linda Hutcheon, Grada Kilomba, Eduardo Lourenço, Paulina Chiziane, Thomas Bonnici, Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, among others.