Looking at Mozambique: Guilherme de Melo's A sombra dos dias

Authors

  • Tobias Brandenberger Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17398/1888-4067.8.185

Keywords:

imagology, Mozambique, portuguese colonialism, literary sistems

Abstract

Literary texts regarding colonial scenarios and decolonisation
processes are of special interest for an imagological approach. The
present article is concerned with the first novel published in 1981 by
the portuguese author (of Mozambicanian descent) Guilherme de
Melo after his final move to Portugal when Mozambique gained
independence in 1975. It focusses on the construction of
representations of the self and the other in the cultural, historical and
socio-political context of the colonial regime in its last phase, the
liberation movements and the national-building in the former
portuguese Africa, with ample attention paid to the perception of
different types of internal alterities, based on categories of difference
which go beyond the usual bipolar confrontations.

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Published

07/13/2022

How to Cite

Brandenberger, T. (2022). Looking at Mozambique: Guilherme de Melo’s A sombra dos dias. Limite. Revista De Estudios Portugueses Y De La lusofonía, 8, 185-206. https://doi.org/10.17398/1888-4067.8.185