Fotografias indiscretas, memórias emudecidas: mulheres comuns em teatros de guerra em Moçambique

Abstract

This article addresses the role of women in during the colonial/liberation war in Mozambique, exposing actions and political agents that have been actively produced as non-existent by dominant historical approaches. Combining excerpts from interviews with the analysis of the power of photographs, the article debates, as deep as possible, and with the cautions measures associated with unveiling various feelings (revolt, hate, envy, discouragement and love), fragments of the experiences lived by women who knew war in the first person. These memories, of ordinary women, contribute to subvert absences, transforming them into active subjects of history.

Keywords

• colonial violence
• ethical issues
• public history
• oral archives
• decolonization