Between poison and remedy, the literature: narratives of illness and cure in the fiction of Mia Couto
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https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v10i21.29963Keywords:
Science, illness, Mia Couto.Abstract
This article is a review of Mia Couto’s novel Venenos de Deus, Remédios do Diabo, highlighting some representations of aspects which refer to themes such as illness and cure in the cultural universe of Mozambique. For this, it is proposed to read the fictional narrative of Mia Couto under the overlapping lenses of history, social sciences and certain assumptions of social medicine, in order to verify the hypothesis that the author builds his criticism of Western knowledge hegemony unveiling alternative worldviews engendered in the cultural practices of African peoples.
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