THE CHARACTER IS SPACE: METAPHOR, PERSONIFICATION, AND OBJECTIFICATION IN THE LITERATURE OF MIA COUTO
Everton Fernando Micheletti | 40-56
Character and space are categories of the narrative that stand out in the literature of Mia Couto, there being a recurrent interrelationship between them. There are characteristics that are reflected between characters and components of space, transformations/metamorphoses occur, so that metaphor becomes constant in these works, especially in the terms of personification and objectification. Based mainly on the statement of Osman Lins that the character is space, this article exposes and analyzes some excerpts from narrative works of Mia Couto, in which this profound interrelationship between the two categories stands out. From the internal to the external aspects pertaining to the literary production of the author, thus, the possible reasons for the recurrence of this interrelation and predominance of the metaphor may be pointed out. Among the aspects of the social milieu there is colonialism, the post-Independence war of Mozambique, poverty and hunger, which leads, as the works imply, to dehumanization and, consequently, to the urgency of rehumanization.
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