Corpo feminino, violência, transgressão e resistência em Niketche: uma história de poligamia São Gonçalo 2023

Abstract

This dissertation was prepared based on the study of the Mozambican novel Niketche: uma História de poligamia (2002), by Paulina Chiziane. The research was restricted to the representation of the female body in Mozambique, and, even more restrictedly, to the body, which underlies this analysis, especially the female body of the character Rami, which triggered some developments, highlighting: gender violence, sexual freedom and female brotherhood. Another aspect highlighted in this work refers to the relevance of black female authorship by Paulina Chiziane, who exercises powerful activism through a literary project of aesthetic and political strength. Among the critical apparatus, researchers Carmen Lúcia Tindó Secco (2016), Maria Antonieta Antonacci (2014), Andréa Pachá and Vilma Piedade (2021), Elódia Xavier (2021) and Dina Salústio (2018) stand out in discussions on female representation , female rights, female bodies and their projections in life and literature. Likewise, the theoretical and critical contributions of researchers Francisco Noa (2019), Carlos Subuhana (2004), Michael Pollak (1989), Dominique Maingueneau (2001), Homi Bhabha (1998) and Pierre Bourdieu (2012) were used in the debates around literature and memory, autobiographical writing, postcolonialism and male domination.