Sob os escombros da história, o ato de narrar: formulações estéticas e performáticas em entre as memórias silenciadas.

Abstract

The revisiting of historical facts from a critical perspective is a strategy for reading literary works adopted by postcolonial studies. The present study embarks on the plots of Mozambican fictional narratives, choosing as a guiding work Entre as memórias silenciadas (2013), by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, for retelling one of the most controversial contexts in the history of nation: the reeducation camps. The main purpose of these pointings is to discuss two aspects that gain materialization and meaning in the khosean narrative web: the rewriting of history and the power attributed to the act of narrating. The analytical study of the work in question makes us think about the power that the language of mozambican fictional productions gains by dressing itself with aesthetic and performative formulations as enunciative resources when narrating the trauma of reeducation experienced by all those who disagreed with the political regime in force in the post-independence period. Therefore, our study summons the controversial memories of reeducation, through fictional narrative diction as a way to search the rubble of history considered official, having alternative versions and perspectives, silenced by the current power, as aesthetic strategies of the literary text, occurring in light of the theories of Bhabha (2013), Dutra (2010), Gallo (2015), Hamilton (1999), Leite (2012) and Noa (2017).