Mythopoetic language and ethical re-presentation of history in Sleepwalking Land, by Mia Couto
It is proposed, in this article, to examine the mythopoetic language as an aesthetically ethical alternative to the fictional recreation of the historical reality of mozambican civil war in Sleepwalking Land (1992), by Mia Couto. In order to achieve our objective, we use as a starting point the defi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Navegações (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/37227 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/navegacoes/article/view/37227 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ethic Aesthetics Mythopoetic language Mia Couto Sleepwalking Land Ética Estética Linguagem mitopoética Terra Sonâmbula. |
| Sumario: | It is proposed, in this article, to examine the mythopoetic language as an aesthetically ethical alternative to the fictional recreation of the historical reality of mozambican civil war in Sleepwalking Land (1992), by Mia Couto. In order to achieve our objective, we use as a starting point the definition of mythopoetics, by Eleazar Mielietinski (1987), and the studies about history, considering its interface with literature and their ethical and aesthetic implications, according to postulates of Theodor W. Adorno (1993), Walter Benjamin (1994) and Michel de Certeau (1982). The mythopoetic is constituted, in the novel, as a language averse to the positivist conception of evolutionary history, as it contributes to the articulation and confrontation between myth and history, orality and writing, poetry and prose and portuguese language and mozambican languages in favor of constructing a narrative that recreates the overlapping worlds of post- independence Mozambique. |
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