Uma fênix renascida das “cinzas da maldição”: poesia e história moçambicana em “O grito negro”, de José Craveirinha

Abstract

This article aims to discuss some relationships between history and literature from the analysis of the poem “Grito negro”, by the Mozambican writer José Craveirinha. It is tried to present the hypothesis that the lyrical I performs an interpretation of the process of colonization and decolonization of Mozambique after approximately four centuries of Portuguese rule, marked structurally by the slavery and imperialism. In the poem there is a re-signification of the history of the newly independent country that would have been reborn from the ashes, the metaphor alluding to the end of Portuguese imperialist rule after five years of war for the independence of Mozambique that occurred on July 25, 1975.