Mia Couto: hope as a principle

Authors

  • Adilson Fernando Franzin Université Paris-Sorbonne e Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9826.literartes.2018.150292

Keywords:

Mozambican Literature, Chronicles, tales, Mia Couto, Principle of hope

Abstract

Little referred to by literary criticism, "A ascensão de João Bate-Certo" is a narrative that is present in the book Cronicando, published in 1991. In this study, through a comparative bias, it is meant to critically point out not only the hybridity generated by the author, within the limits of the chronicle and the tale as literary genres prone to new possibilities, but also to affiliate him to the tradition of the storytellers from Mozambique. In addition, the philosophical reflections in Ernest Bloch's masterpiece, The Principle of Hope, will serve as a theoretical contribution to understand how the Mozambican writer articulates in the textual plot hope as a principle that rejects a passive waiting for concrete social restructuring faced with precariousness and human inadequacies.

Author Biography

  • Adilson Fernando Franzin, Université Paris-Sorbonne e Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
    Adilson Fernando Franzin possui graduação em Letras, Português/Francês, pela UNESP, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2008). Detém o título de Mestrado em Estudos Lusófonos pela Universidade Paris 8 (2014). É doutorando em Estudos Portugueses pela Université Paris-Sorbonne, igualmente em Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Membro do CRIMIC (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains) desde 2014.

Published

2018-10-31

How to Cite

FRANZIN, Adilson Fernando. Mia Couto: hope as a principle. Literartes, São Paulo, Brasil, v. 1, n. 9, p. 26–48, 2018. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9826.literartes.2018.150292. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/literartes/article/view/150292.. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.