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, whethe...
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| description | 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 Memórias Silenciadas, exposes and subverts these associations using the motif of the dissident dying or dead body. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-23a955b2e63643d39c348b2f0b8d00482022-12-22T00:16:46ZengAmerican Portuguese Studies Association (APSA)Journal of Lusophone Studies2469-48002016-11-011210.21471/jls.v1i2.120104Discipline, Disease, Dissent: The Pathologized Body in Mozambican Post-Independence DiscourseEleanor K. Jones0University of SouthamptonIn 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 Memórias Silenciadas, exposes and subverts these associations using the motif of the dissident dying or dead body.https://jls.apsa.us/index.php/jls/article/view/120MozambiqueFrelimomediacorporealitypublic health |
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| title | Discipline, Disease, Dissent: The Pathologized Body in Mozambican Post-Independence Discourse |
| title_full | Discipline, Disease, Dissent: The Pathologized Body in Mozambican Post-Independence Discourse |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Discipline, Disease, Dissent: The Pathologized Body in Mozambican Post-Independence Discourse |
| title_short | Discipline, Disease, Dissent: The Pathologized Body in Mozambican Post-Independence Discourse |
| title_sort | discipline disease dissent the pathologized body in mozambican post independence discourse |
| topic | Mozambique Frelimo media corporeality public health |
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