ABSTRACT:
Museum of the Revolution, the most recent novel by the Mozambican writer João Paulo Borges Coelho, offers the reader a shrewd and detailed question on how to deal in a thoughtful and restorative way with the Mozambican past in its relationship with the legacies of coloniality in the time of European and African post-coloniality experience. Following the writer in this plural and complex exercise of recognition of other stories, narratives and memories constructed as a peripheral and residual patrimony within a larger History, this article intends to articulate with post-colonial worldliness the emerging vigor of post-memory studies, building from this encounter a human, historical and civic enrichment around the generational positioning held hostage to the silences of previous generations. With precision, post-memory presents itself, based on the analysis of this novel, as a theoretical and methodological contribution in its ability to interact with colonial ancestry and from the perspective of historical reparation, the duty of memory to map and deconstruct old logics that survived coloniality in the global human post-colonial present.
KEYWORDS:
Coloniality; Post-Memory; Historical Reparation; Memory Duty