MISSIONARY WRITINGS IN AFRICA UNDER CRITICAL OF THE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
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The Catholic missionary group Missionaries of Africa described the Zambia’s Northern everyday on a large scale. We intend, by the critical and postcolonial literature reveal the interpretative models who were disputing symbolic space in the construction of the missionaries writings of the colonial routine in colonial Zambia's northern. Therefore, we developed a trinomial interpretive tool to understand the "to do" missionary: identity processes, alterity and territoriality. We concluded that the symbolic arena which missionaries resorted to describe Bemba reality and translating their texts in Bemba was permeated with political, economic and religious games of interests, which had as a goal establish Roman Catholicism among the Babemba, creating borders against local and reformist religious practices.
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