Abril (Aug 2008)
PAULINA CHIZIANE: A STORY TELLER IN THE RYTHM OF (COUNTER-) DANCE
Abstract
The present work proposes a way of reading Niketche, the most recent novel of the Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane, pointing at the musical resources as elements which participate in spoken practice. In the rhythm of dance, the characters' path is intertwined, as well as the construction of the text itself. Within a feminine vision of the world, a universe marked by musicality is created, by means of rescaling the Portuguese language and the musical construction in the fictional text.
