Poetized african voices:

the word told in the written word

Abstract

Poeticized African voices: the told word in the written word is centered on the study of how Mia Couto gives voice to the almost-lives of characters, narrators and narrators in the Mozambican universe that rises from the war. To reflect on this situation, two works by Mia Couto were selected: A Carta (Cronicando, 1991) and Kindzu's notebooks (Terra Sonâmbula, 2007). The reading of the letter is guided by the intention of the narrative voice to preserve an affective memory that is increasingly distant. In Kindzu's notebooks, it is the “little story that is told to make believe” (COUTO, 2007, p. 126). It is these expedients that authorize narrative voices to fictionalize reality and poetize absences. The objective that guides this study is centered on the analysis of these narrative voices that establish the pact between the narrator and his listener in the fabulous reading of the writing present in “A Carta” and in Kindzu's notebooks.