Entre memórias silenciadas by Ungulani ba ka Khosa and Virgem Margarida by Licínio de Azevedo: spaces and memories

Abstract

The present article has as object to study two narratives: Between Silent Memories by Ungulani ba ka Khosa (novel) and Virgin Margarida de Licínio de Azevedo (fiction film). The approximation of the two works is suggested by the thematic exploration – the process of “re-education” of a fringe of society that is held by institutions of power as marginal or diverted from the ideals of the new nation in fields far from the cities. It is intended, in a comparative perspective, to reflect on the two narratives, from the analysis of spaces – topoanalysis – relating this category of narrative to memory: between individual and collective ones.