Vozes à margem: representações do feminino e do realismo animista em A confissão da leoa

Abstract

In this thesis we are dedicated to the reading of the writer's novel Mozambican Mia Couto, A confissão da leoa, to ensnare the order two aspects that appear sharply in the literary production of the author: Animist Realism and the representation of women. To this end, before, it was made needed a theoretical overview that elucidate the marks of colonialism European in African social context to then understand the remoteness both women, the indigenous cultures in Africa. Bringing the concept of Animist Realism proposed by Pepetela and invigorated by Harry Garuba, we enter the animistic conception of African world, as well as to propose reflections on patriarchy could also observe the marginal condition to which women are subjected in Mozambican society. Thus, when we consider that in Africa the social and cultural issues are intrinsically linked to the psychic representation of reality, the thread this analysis is to find aspects of Animist Realism weaving the representations of women in the novel in question.