Abstract:
“Naparama? Never have I heard of such people.” With this question, the narrator Kindzu, created by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto, introduces us to one of the political and psychosocial center lines of the novel Sleepwalking Land (1992). We'll follow, in this study, Kindzu, by the prospect of symbolism, practical reason and the poetic of Naparamas, giving dynamism to multicultural strategies through his actions and journal writing, to understand his place in the complex Post-Colonial process in Mozambique. Through the journals of Taímo's son, in mise en abyme narrative, the old Tuahir and the teenager Muindiga will have traditional and contemporary elements to coexist in tense spatiality of places and non-places (AUGÉ, 2010AUGÉ, Marc. Por uma antropologia da mobilidade. Tradução de Bruno César Cavalcanti e Rachel Rocha de Almeida. Maceió: EDLTFAL/UNESP, 2010.; 2012AUGÉ, Marc. Não lugares: introdução a uma antropologia da supermodernidade. Tradução de Maria Lúcia Pereira. Campinas: Papirus, 2012.), with the purpose of surviving the corollary of the civil war and understanding possible mechanisms of the nation's reconstruction.
Keywords:
Mia Couto; Sleepwalking Land; Spaciality; Decolonisation