“Minimal signs of hope”: intuitions about politics in Mia Couto’s writing

Authors

  • Luana Antunes Costa Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i27.98617

Keywords:

Mia Couto, Mozambican literature, politics, essay

Abstract

This article proposes a critical review of the text “E se Obama fosse africano?” [What if Obama were African?], by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto (2009), first published in the newspaper Savana, in 2008, when Barack Obama rose to the presidency of the United Sates. In order to identify the strategies of Mia Couto’s discourse about a global and local political scenario and the tensions in the sociocultural and political in and outside the African continent; we have as theoretical support Edward Said’s thinking on the performativity of the intellectual subject, Liliana Weinberg’s essay theory and the statements by Mia Couto on the esthetic features of his interventional texts.

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Author Biography

  • Luana Antunes Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    Doutora em Letras (Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa), pela Universidade de São Paulo (2014), mestre em Letras (Literatura Portuguesa e Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa), pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (2008), graduada em Letras (Língua e Literatura Portuguesa e Francesa) pela Universidade Estadual Paulista (2005). Desenvolve pesquisa no campo das Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa e Literaturas Francófonas, com destaque para as relações entre Literatura e outros campos de saberes das Ciências Humanas, como História e Política. Atua como docente em programas de formação continuada de profissionais da educação básica e superior em Educação para as Relações Étnico-raciais e Literaturas Africanas e Afro-brasileira. Atua como tradutora (Francês> Português) de obras artísticas e científicas. Atualmente é pesquisadora pós-doc na Universidade Federal Fluminense. 

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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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COSTA, Luana Antunes. “Minimal signs of hope”: intuitions about politics in Mia Couto’s writing. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 16, n. 1, p. 181–196, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i27.98617. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/98617.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.