Banca de DEFESA: Tiesley Toledo do Nascimento

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Tiesley Toledo do Nascimento
DATE: 19/08/2022
TIME: 20:00
LOCAL: PLATAFORMA TEAMS
TITLE:

"We're back to the past again" literary figurations of medicinal practices in Mia Couto's narrative

KEY WORDS:

Mozambican literature; Mia Couto’s narrative; African traditional medicinal practices; Western medicinal practices; decolonization

PAGES: 149
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This work presents an aestheticliterary research with an integrative approach between five short stories and a novel by Mia Couto, being them, respectively: “O exfuturo padre e sua pré-viúva” (2013a), “O adeus da sombra” (2012), “Falas do velho Tuga” (2014), “O derradeiro eclipse” (2014), “O mendigo Sexta-Feira jogando no Mundial” (2009) and Venenos de deus, remédios do diabo (2008). Through the analysis of the literary representation of western and traditional medicinal practices carried out in Mozambique, we aim to observe the narrative approach that reveals the hegemonic processes that threaten the conservation of African knowledge. Furthermore, appropriating historical matter to discuss the individual and collective sufferings caused by colonialism, the aforementioned author uses thematic and formal resources that problematize sociocultural issues that involve different conceptions of health and disease in a given African society. Based on this inquires, we recognize a literature production that, considering the striking contradictions of the Mozambican nation, points to the possibility of a more promising future in that Southern African country.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ELENA BRUGIONI
Interno - 1284121 - EDVALDO APARECIDO BERGAMO
Externo ao Programa - 2724427 - JUAN PEDRO ROJAS
Externo à Instituição - ROGERIO MAX CANEDO SILVA