Getting out of anonymity: the Social Identity in a novel by Paulina Chiziane

Abstract

This article proposes to discuss the social identity of women in the novel Ventos do apocalipse (1999), mozambican novel by Paulina Chiziane. In it, the woman has voice to tell a historical experience from your country: the war of mozambican destabilization. Stories of female characters and a female narrative voice mix to compose the book's belligerent plot. The thread that leads the narrative is the point of view of those who suffered the war, not from those who did it. There is, in the narrative, a desire to reflect and problematize truths from the social roles in the local village, as an continuous effort to apprehend the woman's condition and his multiplicity and complexity, seeking to perceive their social identity.