THE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE COLONIZED MOZAMBICAN PEOPLE IN THE NOVEL O ALEGRE CANTO DA PERDIZ, BY PAULINA CHIZIANE
Paulina Chiziane; Mozambique; Colonialism; Literature and Politics
The central objective of this research is to analyze the representation of the colonized Mozambican people in the novel O alegre canto da perdiz (2008), by Paulina Chiziane. The theoretical basis, for the development of the research, is constituted by studies and reflections on the relations between literature, history, politics, and society, by scholars such as: Antonio Candido (2000), Alfredo Bosi (1992 and 2013) and Benjamin Abdala Júnior (2007); as well as by studies and researches that permeate the conceptions and processes of constitution of identity, memory and multiculturalism such as: Stuart Hall (2013 and 2019) and Homi Bhabha (2007). In this way, a study that aims to analyze the social political situation of Mozambique from a more critical point of view was chosen, in order to understand the main aspects that guide the representation of the history of the colonial period in Paulina Chiziane's work. Reading a text of African literature becomes a place of multiple filtering, disfiguring, and reconfiguring. If writing is a social practice, with a very precise social function in Africa, a heritage that partially underlies literature, meaning is a social construction, characterized by the participation of the writer and the reader in the event of discourse. Paulina Chiziane's narrative shows a society marked by the ideologies of colonization, submission and colonial oppression until today.