Literature, culture and the construction of identities: old people and new people, the countryside and the city in Mia Couto

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the issues that involve the construction of identity based on the interrelations between old/new people and countryside/city. The broader context of the problematization is the negotiation that is established in the relation between old people and city in the mozambican literature and it chooses by object of analysis the story of Mia Couto titled "A avó, a cidade e o semáforo". Methodologically, this work is of a bibliographical nature and has as its main categories of observation and analysis the city and the old people in its implications with the concept of identity.

Keywords

• Identidade
• literatura
• cidade.