História e mito em Cada homem é uma raça, de Mia Couto

Abstract

The object of this work are the tales of Cada homem é uma raça,, of Mozambican writer Mia Couto, whose prose is marked for the confluence of dissimilar components. His narratives show a historical support figuring episodes about the independence and the Mozambican civil war; but there is also the strong presence of unusual elements concerning the myth and the imaginary. Moreover, there are two different worlds: the European colonizer s world and the African colonized s world. The objective of this research was to discover the place and the function of the dualities presents in the texts. We departed of a tales appreciation, considering their double aspect . Then, the narratives were analyzed, and a possibility of interpretation was indicated, with base in theories that discuss the behavior of communities in situations of domination and oppression. It was possible to perceive that the double constructions are find at the three main levels (narration, characters, language), configuring expedients - similar to the magic (or marvelous) realism - that work like tactics of cultural resistance. This can be observed in the character s astute way of thinking and acting; in the mode like, in a form narrative occidental, elements of another order cultural are introduced; in the language, in the use of an instrument other (the Portuguese Language) to express a self condition. Then, the fiction of Cada homem é uma raça should work like a way of resistance to a hegemonic and oppressor thought.