REVOLUÇÃO ANGOLANA: APONTAMENTOS INICIAIS SOBRE A AGÊNCIA FEMININA EM MAYOMBE

Abstract

This study examines how Pepetela narrates the female experience in the Angolan national liberation war, based on the fictional work Mayombe - literature engaged in a context of war. The text produced by OMA The Role of Women in Armed Struggle is also part of the documentary corpus of this work. From a crossed approach between the trajectories of history and fiction, we articulate the experience lived by women in the Angolan revolution and the fictional representation of the Angolan woman - Ondina, a female character from Mayombe. We aim to investigate how the social agency of the Angolan Woman framed in MPLA is represented, and what roles are assigned and occupied by women in the anti-colonial struggle. As the selected texts address the historical context of the liberation struggles in Angola, the time frame of the work deals with the period covering the year 1961, considered by anti-colonial activists as the starting point of the armed struggle against Portuguese colonization, until the proclamation of Independence by Agostinho Neto, on November 11, 1975.