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Discipline, disease, dissent: the pathologized body in Mozambican post-independence discourse

Discipline, disease, dissent: the pathologized body in Mozambican post-independence discourse
Discipline, disease, dissent: the pathologized body in Mozambican post-independence discourse
In a series of speeches given across the northern reaches of newly independent Mozambique in 1983, president Samora Machel sought to encourage unity among his increasingly disenchanted populace by constructing a common enemy: a figure he often specifically frames as a threat to public health, whether parasite, infection or deformity. This article explores these uses of pathologization and public health by the state and pro-state media during the Mozambican nation-building period, and shows how Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa’s 2013 novel, Entre as Memo?rias Silenciadas, exposes and subverts these associations using the motif of the dissident dying or dead body.
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Jones, Eleanor K.
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Jones, Eleanor K.
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Jones, Eleanor K. (2016) Discipline, disease, dissent: the pathologized body in Mozambican post-independence discourse. Journal of Lusophone Studies, 1 (2), 205-221. (doi:10.21471/jls.v1i2.120).

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In a series of speeches given across the northern reaches of newly independent Mozambique in 1983, president Samora Machel sought to encourage unity among his increasingly disenchanted populace by constructing a common enemy: a figure he often specifically frames as a threat to public health, whether parasite, infection or deformity. This article explores these uses of pathologization and public health by the state and pro-state media during the Mozambican nation-building period, and shows how Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa’s 2013 novel, Entre as Memo?rias Silenciadas, exposes and subverts these associations using the motif of the dissident dying or dead body.

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Submitted date: 22 July 2016
Accepted/In Press date: 24 September 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 November 2016
Published date: 29 November 2016
Organisations: Modern Languages

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Local EPrints ID: 403430
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/403430
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Date deposited: 01 Dec 2016 09:26
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:42

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