Women, colonialism, emancipation -- reading ‘Rainhas da noite', by João Paulo Borges Coelho
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https://doi.org/10.35520/mulemba.2018.v10n18a15379Keywords:
women, colonialism, emancipation, memory, fiction.Abstract
In this article, based on the analysis of the book Rainhas da Noite by JPBC, I reflect on the importance of women, from diverse colonial elites, in the perception of the colonial situation, its injustice and the formation of its political conscience. I will briefly approach the paths in which they have moved from the private space of the house and family to the public space and of their essential contribution in the spaces of struggle.
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