A poética da memória: uma leitura fenomenológica do eu em terra sonâmbula e um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra, de Mia Couto

摘要

This thesis was born from the desire to investigate the images of men and their ways of narrating themselves as a remedy to the insatiable thirst of identities, whose theme is the literary field, prime matter by the novelistic genre. The present study is a proposal to reading from the contemporary building strategies romance character. The fictional figure is focused here, as a phenomenon, conditioned by temporality inherent in the narrative setup process, highlights the constitutive nature of oneself, enabling the reader to formulate images of man being in full swing. Given the goals formulated by the thematic cross between character, identity and memory, were elected as corpus of work two novels of fiction of the post-colonial African Literatures, “Sleepwalking Earth” (1992) and “A river called time, a house called land” (2002), Mia Couto, whose narratives, possibly due to the historical, social and cultural conditions there is the common themes, that question now more acute than in other literary spaces, the formulation of identities. The constitution of the person who designs the narrative discourse in these works leads to the fictional figure approach as being-in-the-world, as Heidegger's concept that implies the existence of temporal experience by activity in the world. With the target of achieving recognition itself and thus encompass the meaning of life, oneself appears then, as a subjective dimension articulated by the difficulty to establish truth in our mind.