Matizando a violência: as representações das relações coloniais na obra de João Paulo Borges Coelho

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TONES OF VIOLENCE: REPRESENTING COLONIAL RELATIONS IN THE WORK OF JOÃO PAULO BORGES COELHO

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.