A voz narrativa de Lília Momplé: um marco de referência no feminismo moçambicano

Abstract

The narrative voice of Lília Momplé: a reference in mozambican feminism

Abstract

Most of the works in the canon of Mozambican literature are by male writers, which means that the dominant representation of Mozambican women is a male construction. As in other African countries, this canon is also marked by the anticolonial resistances from the independence periods, in which patriarchal nationalist projects constructed a subaltern position for women through the idealization of Mother Africa or of Mother as a symbolic embodiment of the nation (MARTINS, 2011). This phenomenon, according to Martins “joins another finding: the universalization of Western feminism, which has been denounced as a colonial practice exercised over the Black women of the South.” Literature by African women is one of the places in which feminisms can be debated, through the lives of women in these contexts. The objective of this article is to locate feminisms in Mozambique to show how the writing of Lília Momplé constitutes a powerful voice by exposing the invisibility, marginalization and silencing imposed on Mozambican women by both Western culture and by male Mozambican writers.

Keywords: Feminisms in Mozambique. Literature by women. Lília Momplé.