Em busca da mãe África: identidade e memória no romance Essa Dama Bate Bué, de Yara Nakahanda Monteiro

The article seeks to analyze how the figure of Mother Africa, in Essa dama bate bué, articulates a plot of meanings that suggest Africa as a violated and erased female body. The character Vitória, upon her return to Angola, follows an identity journey that reveals, in the erasure of her history, the violence of colonialism. The Africa revealed in this journey is a continent mutilated by wars and by the process of erasure of African identities by Portuguese colonialism. Thus, Yara Nakahanda Monteiro's narrative proposes thinking about national and racial identity, memory, post-memory and the place of women in the wars for independence in Portuguese-speaking Africa.