From unreal to poetic: Azarias, an orphan child on the wings of the Ndlati

Abstract

The breadth of the concept of post-colonialism welcome some literary crit­icism made from the productions of Nations previously colonized by West­ern metropolises. Thinking in the formulations of Appiah (2007), on the plea that the post-colonial narratives earlier, in name of an ethical-human­ist universalism, we can observe the literature of Mia Couto, in the story “O dia em que explodiu Mabata-bata” from the book Vozes Anoitecidas, as a literary project that can unite the aesthetic and the politician. The entire southern Mozambican cultural tradition is presented to narrate the story of an orphaned child, abandoned by his relative and rescued by their own imagination, a brutal death.