CADERNO DE MEMÓRIAS COLONIAIS, DE ISABELA FIGUEIREDO, E O CAMPO EXPANDIDO DA LITERATURA.

In this article, we propose a brief reading in expanded field of Caderno de Memórias Coloniais (Colonial Memories Notebook) (2009), by Isabela Figueiredo, novel in intimate writing that passes in Mozambique and Portugal, during Mozambique's neocolonialism and post-independence. The concept of expanded field, elaborated by Rosalind Krauss (1979), requests that the critics have an eye to the form, and a reflection about what the form imposes and wishes to provoke. As such, the postmodern happens when the artist does not interrogate herself about the means of expression, which does not determine the praxis anymore, but become routes in favor of an expression, strategy possible to situate in Caderno de Memórias Coloniais. Roberto Vecchi (2008) already had indicated, in theoretical key, the existence of a strategy of Portuguese domination from a disruptive colonial project, thematic present in the novel that, as we are going to see, appears combined to its narrative form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]