Mia Couto, an author in constant displacement
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v8i16.29895Keywords:
Mia Couto, Hybridism, Culture.Abstract
The literature produced in Africa occupies an uncertain position in the Western cultural panorama, both for the incipient condition of its production and the thought, deeply rooted, that there would be an African essentiality to be preserved against all forms of exchange, including the exchange of ideas. But the truth is that such essentiality, if indeed existed, has long become a illusion, projected on the continent from the outside. Based on this principle, the work presented here analyzes how the literature and ideas of the Mozambican author Mia Couto, by withdrawing from the supposed African essentiality, get closer to what one may consider a postmodernist position. For that, we turn to novels and assays written by the author, as well as the ideas of Linda Hutcheon (1991), Homi Bhabha (2014) and Stuart Hall (2006) on cultural and artistic identity in postmodernism.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21881/abriluff.2016n16a325
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