1 Introduction

In 20th century Mozambican literature, the culture of assimilates is an important theme, reflected in the works of Nuemia de Sousa, Lilia Monpule, and Luis Bernardo Onwana. Weng Wana's collection of short stories, 'We Killed a Stinky Dog,' reveals the violence and threats of the racial and gender class system in Portuguese Mozambique through seven stories. Onwana was born into an assimilated family and was an active member of the Mozambique Liberation Front party. He was imprisoned for resisting Portuguese colonial rule and later became the Secretary General of National Culture. This article analyzes the negative emotions such as shame and fear caused by colonialism in Onwana's works through emotional theory.

2. Postcolonial Literature and Emotional Studies

Reviewed the application of emotion theory in postcolonial literature research, emphasizing the role of negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, embarrassment, and panic in colonial history. Emotions are seen as closely related to political and cultural backgrounds, rather than simply personal emotions. By analyzing Onwana's collection of short stories, this paper explores how fear and shame became part of ideology and how these emotions formed emotional networks in colonial societies. The novel reveals from a child's perspective the impact of colonial politics on individuals and how assimilated individuals became tools of colonial rule under racial mixing policies. Racial integration and cultural infiltration as colonial strategies actually emphasize the differences between colonies and territories, in order to rationalize racial oppression and colonial desires.

Shame of the assimilates

By analyzing Silvan Tomkins' "shame shame" theory, this study explores the feelings of shame experienced by assimilated individuals in colonial societies. The narrator Ginu in the novel 'We Killed a Scabby Dog', as a assimilated person in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, experiences a sense of shame stemming from a desire to imitate the white community and a conflict of social status. Ginu, while yearning to approach the white community, suffered exclusion and humiliation due to his racial identity, which led him to participate in the massacre of Isola's scabby dogs, which made him feel ashamed. Ginu's shame is not only due to his actions, but also related to his identity crisis. He is unable to fully integrate into the white community and does not want to fully identify with the marginalized Isola. The novel portrays the shame and complexity of self-identity of individuals in colonial society under unequal power relations through Ginu's inner struggle and self reflection.

Fear in the Colonial Context

In the chapter on fear in the colonial context, fear is explored as a pervasive sense of helplessness rather than a response to specific things. Ginu's experience of fear reveals how fear weakens an individual's subjectivity, reducing their agency to a passive state. The impact of fear on the body, such as trembling and stillness, is used to describe an individual's sense of powerlessness in fear. Fear is also related to moral anxiety, and Ginu's moral confusion about his own behavior in colonial society led to deeper fear. The fear between colonizers and colonized is mutual, and the colonizers' fear of the colonized's growing power interacts with the colonized's fear of colonial authority, forming a complex psychological state. Colonizers maintain control by creating collective fear, and storms, as symbols of change, ultimately turn the hope they bring into disillusionment, reflecting the powerlessness and fear of the colonized when facing colonial authority.

5 Conclusion

Explored how negative emotions such as fear and shame in colonial societies affect physical, verbal, and pathological responses, as well as their role in social power relations. Assimilates feel ashamed and fearful due to their racial identity and white oppression, making it difficult for them to integrate into colonial society. These emotions prompt them to self examine and hesitate, avoiding unethical behavior in order to gain recognition. Emotional energy can flow from the body to other bodies, and the oppressed can influence the colonizers by receiving negative emotions. Colonizers suppressed indigenous peoples by creating a climate of fear, concealing their fear of losing power. Negative emotions have a long-term impact on the colonized, limiting their ability to challenge authority. The author holds a pessimistic attitude towards the decolonization process, revealing the agency and human degradation of the colonized under colonial rule, as well as moral panic. The existence of the powerless Portuguese colonial empire and the assimilated class increased the concealment of the confrontation between colonizers and colonized classes, weakening anti colonial sentiment.