Mia Couto e a simbologia de embarcações aquáticas : navegar, mais do que preciso, é sonhável

Abstract

Search, in the narratives of three novels by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto , any references to boats, barges, ships, vessels, canoes (finally, water transport in general) and realize how the different symbologies and meanings that carry these elements relate to and enrich such narratives are the main objectives of this research. Thus , the literary texts that form the corpus of this study are Terra Sonâmbula, O outro pé da sereia and A confissão da leoa each volume representing a decade of the author's production, since the books were published in 1992 ( his first novel ) , 2006 and 2012 , respectively. The theory of this work was grounded mainly in the works of Gilbert Durand, Gaston Bachelard, Carl Gustav Jung and Mircea Eliade, in regards to issues relating to the imaginary. However, it is also important to check those specific aspects about Mozambique, its culture, society and beliefs, as well as about the writer whose work is reviewed here, in order to discover how these characteristics may alter the imagery related to water transports within the literary texts in question . For this reason, the studies of Laura Padilla, Ana Mafalda Leite, Pires Laranjeira, Inocência Mata, among others, were selected.