A voz das imagens coloniais: arquivos e violência nas obras literárias da pós-memória

Abstract

This paper is about the representations of violence in the archives from European colonialism. By analysing a series of texts by French writer Éric Vuillard and by Portuguese author Paulo Faria, the author comments the ways in which literature sets up a critical re-appropriation of these colonial archives from the perspective of post-memory. These two works of art propose a new relationship between archive and fiction.