RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 O outro pé da sereia
JF Luso-Brazilian Review
JO Luso-Braz Rev
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 46
OP 62
DO 10.1353/lbr.2012.0003
VO 49
IS 1
A1 Brugioni, Elena
YR 2012
UL http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/49/1/46.abstract
AB This article discusses Mia Couto’s novel O outro pé da sereia (2006) in terms of the novel’s significant readings of Mozambican history, tradition and cultural context. Postcolonial theory provides a critical framework for the study of questions that appear in the novel and represent a set of issues that are central to both Mia Couto’s work and to the broader context of Mozambican culture and politics.This study accordingly emphasizes particular writing and literary strategies that are crucial to Couto’s work, the consideration of which enables a counterpoint to be established between postcolonial theoretical categories, cultural paradigms and literary interventions in a globalized world.