Relações entre sexo, natureza e história na ficção de Mia Couto

Abstract

Published respectively in the years of 1992 and 2012, the novels Terra sonâmbula and A confissão da leoa, by Mia Couto, constitute the first and the most recent incursion of the Mozambican author through long prose narratives. Although they are distanced by time and cultural context, both works bear the authorial mark of the writer and can be analyzed under the same theoretical perspective. This paper therefore investigates the relations between gender and history in the fictional spaces created by the author, constituting in a bibliographical research. The assumptions that underlie the work are the ideas of post-feminist essayist Camille Paglia on the individual's identification with nature, as well as their submission to it, and the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin about the novelistic chronotope. The thought of the researcher Linda Hutcheon, exponent of the study of the postmodernism concept and the work of scholars of the issues of cultural identity, as Homi Bhabha and Edward Said, complement the theoretical basis on which the research is based