Tensões do pós-colonial nas obras Campo de trânsito de João Paulo Borges Coelho e Entre memórias silenciadas de Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

Abstract

This research discusses and problematizes the situations through which a considerable part of the population of Mozambique passed between the years of 1974/1980, a period that includes the end of Portuguese colonization and the establishment of the Marxist-Leninist Regime in the Government of Samora Moisés Machel after independence. The situations referred to relate to the so-called Cleaning Operation. The action took place in the independent government that tried to remove from Mozambican society those who fell into the categories of unemployed, healers, régulos, Jehovah's Witnesses, women, prostitutes, people who could practice the vices of the colonial period or needed "re-education" to enter the new time in Mozambique. The operation known as "cleaning" or "Operation production" was a practice and a difficult moment in the recent Republic of Mozambique, which created the so-called reeducation fields, where people were sent out of society and banished to this state-projected space. The fictional work of Mozambicans, João Paulo Borges Coelho, Campo de Trânsito (2007) and Between Silent Memories (2013), by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, are representations that allow investigating the modus operandus in Mozambican society, from what the postcolonial government called Operation Cleaning and Operation Production. The thesis is based on the Postcolonial Theory and some slopes derived from it, investigate in the fiction of Borges Coelho and Ba Ka Khosa, as it was given the representation of the events mentioned such operation and from review and bibliographical survey, research in newspapers of the time and reports of survivors. The cleaning operation in Mozambique was a breakup of this society and that these camps not only faced Mozambique as a decolonizing nation, but also the civil rights of hundreds of Mozambicans who had their lives interrupted, abducted and violated. The questions that pervade the Postcolonial and the newly liberated nations, whose liberation and freedom do not reach all, and which many, because they do not share the same opinion or are suspected of opposing the current regime of a people, freedom does not reach everyone and many because they do not have the same opinion or at least suspect opponents of the current regime. The use of the banishment to camps full of violence, barbarism and imposition of a single order and thought represents the lack of a citizen policy, respecting freedom of thought.