Discursos contra-hegemônicos na obra de José J. Veiga e Mia Couto

Abstract

This research, on a comparative perspective, studies some procedures of a narrative construction used by the writer José J. Veiga (Brazilian) and Mia Couto (Mozambican) on the production of counter-hegemonic speeches, bringing up the voice of marginalized, muted of/by the history, with the ones that circumvent the censorship and deconstruct the dominant power. Taking on the role of storytellers, they unveil the factual by using the fictional and enable the reading of everyday disorder through transgression that its narratives, interconnected by the Portuguese language, inheritance of the period of colonial domination by which their countries went through, they set up, re-creating, fictionally, Brazilian backwoods features and the African savannah. So, part of its texts, in which we check the carnivalization, the polyphony, the historiographic metafiction and the fantastic, may be considered a counter-hegemonic speech, showing differences and likenesses that value the thematic and the crossing between the imaginary of Brazilian and Mozambican people