xavier, lola geraldes viana, joão špánková, silvie
This paper analyzes Mia Couto’s short story “O dia em que explodiu Mabata-bata” [The day Mabata-bata exploded] and its adaptation by Sol de Carvalho’s film Mabata Bata. Through an analysis of both versions, this study aims to understand how Couto’s narrative was recreated and transfigured in the film adaptation. The film adaptation of the story emp...
Franzin, Adilson Fernando
Propõe-se com o presente estudo uma compreensão aprofundada sobre o fenômeno romanesco moçambicano, gênero literário que por várias razões se revelou tardio neste país. Para tal, remetendo-se ao período colonial, a história da literatura moçambicana está implicada à imprensa desde suas origens até a contemporaneidade, momento no qual o romance enqu...
Alves Lamas, Isabella Bueno, Natália
On 4 October 1992, the General Peace Agreement (GPA) was signed bringing to an end the armed conflict that plagued Mozambique for sixteen years. Even though this day is celebrated as the Day of Peace and Reconciliation, officially marking the end of the war between Frelimo and Renamo (1976-1992), it can also be seen, more broadly, as the end of an ...
Gori, Barbara
Silence is a topic with a great power of attraction, especially in the Western society of the 21st century, where it is always more important to “have to speak at any cost”, “have to say everything” and “have to speak always”, as if they were an explicit way demonstrating a possible equation: to speak = to be valid. Traditional African society trav...
Simon, Luiz Carlos
Este artigo pretende focalizar uma das questões relacionadas com as masculinidades: a violência doméstica praticada por homens contra mulheres. A representação do problema é construída através da análise dos dois contos selecionados: “Saíde, o Lata de Água”, de Mia Couto, e “Homem não pode bater em mulher”, de Rubem Fonseca, escritos em língua port...
Graebin Mendonça, Fernanda Ribas do Nascimento, Valéria
This work is based on discussing the contribution of the novel A river called time, by Mozambican writer Mia Couto, to the theory of Law. The debate lies within the theoretical branch of “law in literature”, in which characters and stories involving legal matters are made evident. The narrative revolves around the journey of the young Mariano to th...
Morais, Maria Perla Araújo Lopes, Frederico José Andries
Postcolonial studies emphasize the need of reflecting on how countries which suffered colonization still promote the maintenance of imperial power structures when they do not strongly criticize their social organizations. Thus in most of these countries it is necessary to think about the resistance of thoughts and ideologies that do not effectively...
Ferreira dos Santos Junior, José Welton da Rocha Silva, Rejane Vecchia
This article is a review of Mia Couto’s novel Venenos de Deus, Remédios do Diabo, highlighting some representations of aspects which refer to themes such as illness and cure in the cultural universe of Mozambique. For this, it is proposed to read the fictional narrative of Mia Couto under the overlapping lenses of history, social sciences and cert...
Batista, Adriane Figueira
The literature draws, on many lines, traces of the masculinities that subvert the common place and open dialogues between dissonant voices. This work intends to reflect and present some allegorical possibilities brought by two distinguished writers from different countries and contexts: Caio Fernando Abreu (Brazil) and Mia Couto (Mozambique). Ask y...
de Brito, Daniela
O que caracteriza o lugar da identidade na obra de Mia Couto é a viagem, visto que seus romances, geralmente, encenam a pluralidade de etnias, crenças, idiomas, devido à multiplicidade decorrente de trocas contínuas, realizadas ao longo do período de colonização e descolonização de Moçambique. A proposta deste artigo é investigar três romances dess...
