Meaning and no meaning of Portuguese language: issues of speech and language in Mia Couto tales

Authors

  • Maurício Silva Universidade Nove de Julho (São Paulo)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v9i19.29939

Keywords:

Mia Couto, Lusophone African Literature, Portuguese.

Abstract

This article is about the fictional production of Mia Couto, especially his short stories. It analyzes how the Mozambican author uses in his writings issues related to speech and language and links it to the theories of postcolonialism. For Mia Couto the process of colonization imposes on the colonized another way of speaking, which corresponds to another language.

 

---

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.2017n19a424

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Maurício Silva, Universidade Nove de Julho (São Paulo)

Doutor em Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas pela Universidade de São Paulo. Professor da Universidade Nove de Julho (São Paulo).

Downloads

Published

2017-11-21

How to Cite

Silva, M. (2017). Meaning and no meaning of Portuguese language: issues of speech and language in Mia Couto tales. ABRIL – NEPA / UFF, 9(19), 99-117. https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v9i19.29939

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 19 (2017): Metamorphoses of contemporary narrative

Section

Articles

License

I authorize the journal Abril - NEPA/UFF to publish the paper of my authorship/responsibility that I now submit, in case it is accepted for online publication.

Moreover, I declare that this contribution is original, that it was not submitted to any other editor for publication, and I sign the present declaration attesting the truth of all its contents.

The copyright of the works published at the virtual space of the journal Abril - NEPA/UFF are automatically entitled to the journal. Their total or partial reproduction is conditioned to the authors' citations and publication data.

 

Licença Creative Commons
Abril is licensed under a Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).