Estéticas da memória e do futuro em João Paulo Borges Coelho e Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

Abstract

Science fiction written and visual narratives already amount to a vast corpus, standing out as new representations of African contemporaneity (Bould, 2015) and pointing to a set of critical issues that appear to be relevant for (re)defining postcolonial poetics and aesthetics. Examining literary works as Cidade dos Espelhos (2011) by João Paulo Borges Coelho and Ualalapi by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (2016) through the critical framework of science fiction and speculative fiction, we aim to reflect on the aesthetics of memory and of, the future, framing these literary works as ways to renew the meaning of the “future of the past” (Koselleck, 2015) within the postcolony (Mbembe, 2000).

Keywords

• dystopia
• future
• memory
• Mozambique
• postcolony