"Antes de nascer o mundo" de Mia Couto: vidas transformadas pela guerra

Abstract

The Mozambican literatures were a great instrument of liberation struggle during the Portuguese colonial trial. They operated historiographically by committing themselves to the writing of history and past experiences of societies shaken by colonization. The objective of this work is to promote a reflection on the course of this literature that was a milestone for intellectual independence. A priori, those represented in the work of the Mozambican writer Mia Couto. Also, how the construction within the fiction takes place in a narrative marked by the trauma of the wars and how the memories of the author and the characters intertwine with an imaginary on the wars in Mozambique. African Literature has enabled us to experience this universe, and to uncover the richness of the lives of people transformed by the war and the work of the writer Mia Couto. In order to achieve the chosen theme, it emerged through concepts, studies, elaborated through bibliographical research in websites, as well as in other literary collections. In the first instance, the collection of bibliographic material was carried out containing the perceptions of theorists who discuss and corroborate with the thematic of this work. Such as: COUTO (2016); OLIVEIRA (2009); Fensk (2012); MARTINS (2017), among others. Through the eyes of these intellectuals literature became a more forceful expression in the application of new concepts of literary education, and a weapon against the war in Mozambique. For through it writers, like Mia Couto, have become voices in the struggle and resistance against this form of oppression, war.