A escrita da violência em Mia Couto, Sony Labou Tansi e J. M. Coetzee

Abstract

The development of postcolonial studies has provided a new interpretative framework to think the literary production of countries that have undergone colonialism. In this context, the African novel has changed and new poetic elements have appeared after independence. I have chosen to analyze three novels from three distinct national and literary inspirations to carry out a comparative analysis of different types of violence. Despite the differences found between the colonization and independence processes, I noticed that the issues related to violence are often repeated. My aim has been to study the experience of violence through Mia Couto’s, Sony Labou Tansi’s and J. M. Coetzee’s narrative work, analyzing for instance, the abuse of power, the construction of stereotypes and oppression to show the richness of this literature that aims at unsettling the established order and offering a new version of past events; and also on the structural level, humor or linguistic creations reveal the desire to translate and hybridize cultures.

Keywords

• African literature
• J. M. Coetzee
• Mia Couto
• Postcolonial studies
• Sony Labou Tansi
• violence