Orgia das (des)humanidades: Trauma, memória e violência em contos de Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

Abstract

It discusses the following issue: how the stories of the book Orgia dos loucos (Orgy of the mad), written by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (2016), specifically the tales "A orgia dos loucos" ("The orgy of the mad") and "O exorcismo" ("The exorcism"), as representatives of the Mozambican literature, present relations between trauma, memory and violence of the social reality experienced in Mozambique? Therefore, it is an essentially bibliographic study, based on the discussions about trauma, violence and literature promoted by Ginzburg (2004, 2011, 2012) and Selligmann-Silva (2008, 2016). As a result of its analysis, we believe that this author elaborates, in these narratives, a hyperbolic language of destruction, a real orgy of bodies thrown into the abyss of death and dehumanization.