ALEGORIA, HISTÓRIA E FICÇÃO EM O OUTRO PÉ DA SEREIA: UMA TESSITURA PÓS-COLONIAL

Abstract

Mia Couto’s relationship with African history of colonization is revealed in his novel O Outro pé da sereia, The Mermaid’s Other Foot, (2006). In this work the writer recreates scenes and reconstructs the voices that make up the narrative. Through this dialogue, the novel stands out as very relevant for our studies due to the symbolic weight that it brings in the fictional (re)construction of historical moments during the Portuguese colonialism in Mozambique. From this premise, we propose to explore the presence of allegory in entanglement between history and fiction as a constitutive element in the fictional universe of the novel.