BETWEEN DREAM AND DEATH: UNVEILINGS, REVELATIONS AND CONTAMINATIONS IN THE FICTIONAL NARRATIVE OF MIA COUTO

Abstract

The literary perspective of Mia Couto is a challenge to contemporary Lusophone thought. The meetings and dialogues with Brazilian authors, especially of Guimarães Rosa, they're part of a post-colonial literature thinking the Mozambican reality from the recovery of oral tradition. Mia Couto in their travel narratives, constructs, from the colonial linguistic matrix, a new language marked by the meeting and dialogue of Bantu languages of to say the real in an inseparable relationship with the sacred. The reinvention of the Portuguese language allows, "Dive into orality and escape the rationality of writing a code as the only system of thought." Revive the past and, from it, do not let the dream die, despite the historical problems, is challenging the magical literature, naughty and transgressive of Mia Couto. It is in this reinvention of the past by the writing, adapted to an African reality, populated by the mystery, the wonderful, the myths and the belief where, between the dream and death, it will revealing and unveiling times and places that intertwine, populated by figures that "on the banks of rivers inscribe in stone, stubbornly, the tiny signs of hope."

post-colonialism, orality, magical thinking, mozambicanity, dream, death, Mia