A memória coletiva da escravidão em Feeding the Ghosts, (1997), de Fred D’Aguiar

Abstract

Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997) is analyzed focusing on the collective memory of slavery. The novel thematizes the memory of slavery, beinh a historical novel, that approaches what happened on the slave ship Zong, in 1781. The focus is on the protagonist Mintah, a slave who attempts a riot on board, but she fails and sees 131 fellows thrown alive into the sea. The fiction about the memory of slavery revisits the legacies left by this barbarism. The idea of ​​collective memory of Halbwachs (2006) took to an understanding of how the novel shows that the collective memories of slaves are not considered when the historical memory of slavery is composed. Mintah had her diary ignored in court, and the historical memories of the ship Zong are just the memories of the crew and the captain, whose ideological view about slavery justified the murdering of sick slaves because of profit.