Espacialidade e temporalidade da ficção estética e identitária cultural em O outro pé da sereia, de Mia Couto

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of space and time pictures in writing by Mia Couto, with reference to the work the other foot mermaid. Study analyzed the work as the author goes through the space-time dimension, the IDs and Social representations and the boundaries between cultures. Our study addressed also traces of hybridization, as well as the weaknesses that emerge from the confrontation established by temporal and spatial duplicity that produces an in-between place and the ambivalence between dream and reality. This study aimed to also show the imaginary questions and fragmented narrative, written at the same time, circular in shape and zigzag in the mirroring was a very used by the author resource, requiring an attentive and participatory reader. We tried to emphasize that the clash between the historical past and the re-elaboration of work done by writing Mia Couto, resize the memory files revealing to us a culturally hybrid nation, in a constant identity displacement process.