Tones of Violence: representing colonial relations in the work of João Paulo Borges Coelho Cover Image

Matizando a violência: as representações das relações coloniais na obra de João Paulo Borges Coelho
Tones of Violence: representing colonial relations in the work of João Paulo Borges Coelho

Author(s): Marta Banasiak
Subject(s): Cultural history, Sociology
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Mozambique; Memory; Social relations; Colonial; Post Colonial

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the process of recuperation of social relations during the colonial period in the work of a Mozambican writer João Paulo Borges Coelho. The process is seen as a project of filling an empty space in the collective memory of Mozambican nation that has emerged due to a violent rupture with the past triggered off by the post‑independence politics.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 7-17
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Spanish
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