A herança de uma memória: relatos de uma verdade o encontro histórico de Angola com a saudade e a realidade

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the relation between memories, traumas and the close connection with literary works and post memories of Angolan-Portuguese that were part of the Colonial War of Angola in the decades of 60 and 75. This work was elaborated from a bibliographic research intersecting and contrasted with fragments of family reports, having the Colonial War and the forced departure from Angola as the theme. The present work establishes, then, a link between memories and literature. Thus, it was possible to analyze the various different ways the war affected people and the disturbed feelings that are still present in their lives. Thereby, we are also able to understand and compare the traumas and marks from the war in the memories of witnesses and in the representation of the conflicts in literary works here studied. The novels studied in this paper were O Retorno (2013), written by Dulce Maria Cardoso, Teoria Geral do Esquecimento (2012), written by José Eduardo Agualusa and the tale Ngola Kiluaje, present in the book Filhos da Pátria (2001), by João de Melo. Our hypothesis points that the interlacement between memory and literature is essential in the identity’s constitution, especially of the postcolonial individual.