Invisibilidades e violências no romance africano a última tragédia, de Abdulai Sila.

Abstract

The present study focuses on the study of Portuguese-speaking African literature, more specifically, Guinean literature, focusing on the representations of the characters and their context. The main aim of this research is to analyze Abdulai Sila‟s work “A última tragédia” (2011), as a novelistic constitution in African territory, in the light of decolonial theory, in which the principles of colonization spread for centuries and rooted in social interactions in the contemporary world are critically observed (Santos, 2022). In addition, we list as a thematic focus the invisibilities and violence experienced by indigenous characters in the midst of the process of colonization of Guinean territory. To this end, we used as a methodological practice an exploratory and qualitative bibliographic research, of a basic nature. In dialogue with the decolonial perspective, based on the considerations of Santos (2011), Maldonato-Torres (2018), and scholars of African literatures Hamilton (1999), Bonnici (2009), Augel (2011), Noa (2017) and many others mobilized in the foundation of this study. Therefore, the legacies of colonialism have consequences to this day, culturally manipulating societies and hindering the whole process of decolonization, however, the decolonial project opens up possibilities for clarifying the legacies of the coloniality of power, of being and of knowledge established historically.