Babalaze das hienas e a memória coletiva moçambicana: a oralidade, a ancestralidade e a escrita poética como narrativa da guerra civil

Abstract

Craveirinha’s poetry, that evokes the collective memory of his country, hard hit by civil war. The national feeling and Africanism evoked in Craveirinha’s poetics not only expose the pains and horrors that have plagued his people, but they also point to ways of identity, political and cultural emancipation of colonialist oppressions. For these reasons is that Craveirinha’s writing is, to some extent, an African treatment for the preservation of its culture. For this analysis, the power of African orality in the construction of this cathartic process will be considered, once the poet has as a source of inspiration for his writing the memories and voices of the population affected by war.