Tra vittime e perpetratori: l’omosessualità come silenzio e implicazione nella guerra coloniale in Mozambico

Abstract

The memory of the white homosexual elite during late colonialism in Mozambique is a complex and contradictory archive that situates this social group between being victim of the sexual repression of the Salazarist Estado Novo and the collaboration with the colonial system that oppressed the local population. Between historical silence and implication with the regime, this article reconstructs the dynamics of the homosexual community during the colonial war in Mozambique and, using literary testimonies, analyses them through the concept of the “implicated subject” (Rothberg 2019).

Keywords

• estado novo
• colonial war
• queer colonial literature
• implicated subject
• trauma