A máscara da diáspora africana nos relatos de Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

Abstract

The dissertation proposes a reflection on the work of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua with his account of his experience in captivity entitled, An interesting narrative, biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a native of Zoogoo, in interior of Africa (a convert to christianity), with a description of that part of the World, including the manners and customs of the inhabitants, from 1854. The analysis will seek to point out the possible “masks” of the diaspora in the account of the freed slave, based on the concept of Grada Kilomba in his book Memórias da plantation. Episodes of everyday racism. Baquaqua's book was written through testimonies, letters and other documents presented to abolitionist writer Samuel Moore. The book of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua's life tells the trajectory of the only testimony of a slave in Brazil and this narrative is divided into two parts that are quite evident in the original work of 1854: a first divided into chapters from the first to the seventh, written through the words of Moore with some reports in Baquaqua's voice, which denotes to the reader a very interventionist aspect. The second part is a report, an autobiography by Mahoma Gardo Baquaqua himself