THE PROCESSES OF DENIAL OF BLACK MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN "THE MASK" BY GRADA KILOMBA

doi.org/10.29327/4429559

Abstract

This article aims to analyze in the text "The mask", by the Portuguese writer Grada Kilomba, the processes of collective memory and traumas inherited from the image that was directed to the enslaved black, from the marks of colonialism. It is based on the criterion of definition of these marks that one reaches the social subjects and everything that constitutes their relationship with the present and the past. Therefore, in comparison to this analysis, the elucidation of the concept of memory and identity as an object of biological and social study, as argued by Joël Candau (2008), is investigated. With that in mind, the investigation comprises of how memory and identity are supported by a perspective of definition of social actors, their actions and their abilities to embody a personal and collective identity, when one imagines the conflicts that involve a psychoanalytic study of the subject and the reconstitution of the historical past.