O silêncio-voz: as mulheres de Neighbours, De Lília Momplé

Abstract

This article aims to analyses the novel Neighbours (1995) by the Mozambican writer Lilia Momple. The narrative is set in Mozambique in 1985 in three apartments, each marked by a woman’s central figure, and is set against the backdrop of a murderous raid by apartheid agents from South Africa, next to Mozambicans, in order to destabilize the government of the time and bring questions to the people. We will approach the representation of the silence in the work’s female characters. In our reading, we will learn on the texts of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2015), bell hooks (2017), Michelle Perrot (2005), Rebecca Solnit (2017), Simone de Beauvoir (2008), and others.