A dimensão poética e social do feminino em obras de Mia Couto.

Abstract

This study reflects on the social and poetic dimension of the feminine in Mia Couto’s novels. To this end, has been selected the novels: Terra Sonâmbula, O outro pé da sereia and Antes de nascer o mundo, with their respective female character: Farida, Mwandia and Dordalma. They highlight the social and historical aspects of Mozambique, based on scenarios and characters created by the author who experienced post-colonial conflicts unwound there. The three female characters are analyzed from its historical, social and family situation, a context of constant violation by men, while they are seen as an allegorical representation of a female Mozambique that suffered from colonization with post- colonial struggles and inner difficulties (civil wars), but even before that it was the victim of patriarchal abuses of many of his own countrymen. In the context portrayed by the novels, you can see that the Mozambican man ever suffered to feel helpless, but a woman certainly suffered more and more.