Fragile women-beasts: life scars on female soul

Abstract

On female characters Mia Couto delegates a mission: fly the route, or suf­fered mild, between the dream world and reality, adding them in both worlds pains of soul and body will leave indelible scars. Revelations about female behavior, submission in relation to male power and self-assertion in tough times are in the dream world of the satisfaction of desires more romantic and more feminine needs. Among the mishaps of everyday life and the hope of better days, women of Mia Couto transiting the impossible of possible, the absolute strength of weakness. In most novels the author Mozambique, among them The other foot mermaid (2006), Earth sleepwalker (2007) and Confession Lioness (2012) found women are overcoming model, women who make life a journey in search of spiritual comfort, since the emotional and material they seem unattainable. The aim is to test a meeting very par­ticular with Constance and Mwadia Malunga, Farida, Virgínia Pinto, Hanifa Assulua, Naftalinda Makwala and Mariamar Mpepe who will have the op­portunity to share a part of their rich and painful life experiences.