Open Accessmemórias perdidas da nação moçambicana: Terra Sonâmbula e O Outro Pé da Sereia de Mia Couto
Author(s) -
Kamila Krakowska
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
studia iberystyczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2391-7636
pISSN - 2082-8594
DOI - 10.12797/si.13.2014.13.11
Subject(s) - humanities , independence (probability theory) , subject (documents) , colonialism , national identity , history , identity (music) , spanish civil war , ethnology , art , political science , politics , archaeology , statistics , mathematics , library science , computer science , law , aesthetics
LOST MEMORIES OF THE MOZAMBICAN NATION: TERRA SONÂMBULA AND O OUTRO PÉ DA SEREIA BY MIA COUTO
The aim of this article is to question the relation between memory and oblivion in the process of constructing national identity, analysing two novels by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto. Terra Sonâmbula and O Outro Pé da Sereia present several characters who travel in search of the lost memories from their own past as well as from the common past of the nation. The first novel deals with the suffering caused by the long civil war in the post‑independence period while the other is focused on the Mozambican colonial history and the subject of slavery.