Crossings: novel and experience in Mia Couto and Guimarães Rosa

Authors

  • Naira Almeida Nascimento UTFPR - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i27.85465

Keywords:

Mia Couto, Guimarães Rosa, comparative literature, otherness

Abstract

The similarities between the writing of the renowned Mozambican author Mia Couto (1955- ) and the Brazilian Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967) have merited further consideration of numerous critical studies. This study is focused on their novelistic production, seeking to highlight another issue generally relegated by critics about the interaction between them: a mediating figure. The purpose is to investigate how the inclusion of a mediating figure in the literary plane, located between the traditional rural cultures and urban literate ones, attempts to bridge the linguistic translation problems, the fictional verisimilitude in the context of these works, and yet, a sort of alter-ego narrative perspective.

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Author Biography

  • Naira Almeida Nascimento, UTFPR - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
    Professora Adjunta de Literatura da UTPFR, Campus Curitiba, com mestrado e doutorado em Estudos Literários pela UFPR.

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Published

2015-06-21

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2015): Literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa e o pós-independência

Section

Dossiê 27: Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa e o Pós-Independência

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How to Cite

NASCIMENTO, Naira Almeida. Crossings: novel and experience in Mia Couto and Guimarães Rosa. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 16, n. 1, p. 215–231, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i27.85465. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/85465.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.