Das margens do rio Licungo aos ventos do apocalipse. Vinde todos escutar o novo canto: a sociedade moçambicana sob o prisma da mulher na escrita de Paulina Chiziane

Abstract

The current paper addresses a study on two of Paulina Chiziane's novels: The happy partridge's song (O alegre canto da perdiz) and Winds of the apocalypse (Ventos do apocalipse). This research is based on the theory that Chiziane's work, when it brings to the center condition of woman, is based on the idea of a literary canon when it brings to the center of its novels the voice of those who were silenced and invisible, firstly by colonial power Portuguese and, then, by the patriarchal structure, especially in southern Mozambique, which was legitimized and encouraged by colonial domination. In this way, the author demonstrates, through her texts, her competence to present other unknown Africas, both by the Western world and by the Mozambican patriarchal world itself, and to problematize each of the spaces in which they are situated. To justify this statement, we searched for elements that distinguished the work of the writer Mrs. Chiziane form the other Mozambican writers. The conclusion in that Paulina Chiziane uses her writing, which is a space of power, to reverberate the voices of countless Mozambican women. The narratives carry with them the pains and reflections of women who, for centuries, have been ignored and silenced by Mozambican patriarchal society. This how The happy partridge’s son (O alegre canto da perdiz) tells the history of Mozambique under colonial domination, but reread by the feminine point fo view. In Winds of the apocalypse (Ventos do apocalypse) it happens the same rereading, but now it takes place on the conflicts triggered off by the civil war that razed the country after the process of independence. In addition to the aspects mentioned, this research aims to constitute a work in the field of African Literature, which contributes to the implementation of Federal Law 10.639/03 in Brazilian education, since there is still a lack of academic papers that address such studies.