O outro pé da sereia: um entrelaçamento entre a história da colonização de Moçambique e o universo ficcional de Mia Couto

Abstract

Mia Couto's relationship with the history of the colonization of Africa is particularized in the work The Other Foot of the Mermaid (2006) through the recreation of scenarios and the reconstruction of the voices that make up the narrative. Due to the bias of this dialogue, the novel stands out because of the symbolic burden it brings in the fictional (re) construction of historical moments of Portuguese colonization in Mozambique. Starting from this premise, we propose to evidence a recount of the story through the staging of the characters in different times and spaces of the narrative, with the purpose of identifying thematic representations that involve the dialogue of history with the Literature in the novel. These themes will be analyzed from the standpoint of scholars of Mia Couto's literary production and authors of the theoretical section of post-colonialism.