Paulina Chiziane: Uma voz feminina em África

Abstract

The present capstone paper, entitled Paulina Chiziane: uma voz feminina em África (Tr. Paulina Chiziane: a female voice in Africa), aims to analyze and understand how the female universe is represented in the literary works: Balada de amor ao vento (Tr. Love ballad in the wind) (1990) and Niketche: Uma história de poligamia (Tr. Niketche: A story of Polygamy) (2002). Through the narratives, a discussion will be held on gender relations and also on a Mozambican cultural aspect: polygamous marriage. This analysis was due to the interest of this researcher on to find out how the feminine universe is reflected in the literature, also by the admiration obtained about the life and a professional trajectory of the author Paulina Chiziane, a writer who gives voice to women. For the following research, we collected information and materials about the author Paulina Chiziane, such as articles, blogs, interviews, a doctor’s degree thesis and were also studied the two literary works mentioned above. As theoretical support for the work, we highlight here some of the authors that were studied, among which are: Antonio Candido, Laura Cavalcante Padilha, Lourenço do Rosario, Marcia Tiburi and Maria Nazareth Soares Fonseca. Thus, a bibliographical research was carried out from the literary studies, the Mozambican historiography, its society and also from the feminist critique of the authorial feminine literature.