PELAS LETRAS, VOZES BRADAM A EXISTÊNCIA:
Memórias e silêncios nas disputas das escritas moçambicanas
Mozambican literatures; History and Literature; FRELIMO; Ualalapi; Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa; combative poetry; Mozambican nationalism.
This dissertation has as its main research topic: reflections on the way in which the writing configures itself as a space for political change in the setting of principles of vision and division of the social world, in the theoretical perspective of Pierre Bourdieu, and/or the relationships between seeing, doing and being on the distributions of the sensible, based on Jaques Ranciére’s considerations. And how literature can be a democratic instrument for changing this divisions, claiming the existence, visibility and inclusion of the uncounted portions, supplementary groups that were excluded from the community, by introducing disagreement, the Other, opening up to new possibilities of storytelling and representative settings world. Therefore, aspects of the writing disputes in the Mozambican colonial context will be analyzed, as well as the post-independence conflicts, mainly the literary production in the 1980s. The tensions between the FRELIMO unitary model of combative poetry and the literary works that challenge this model are analyzed from a perspective that considers the written word as a field of political action and the reconfiguration of the space of the distribution of the sensible in a community. To approach the literary work as a factor of disruption and dissent, we will study the literary work Ualalapi, by Mozambican writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, published in 1987 and its relations with official Mozambican historiography.