Invented memories: a comparative study between the novel Relato de um certo Oriente, by Milton Hatoum and Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada Terra, by Mia Couto / Memórias inventadas: um estudo comparado entre Relato de um certo oriente, de Milton Hatoum e Um rio chamado Tempo, uma casa chamada Terra, de Mia Couto

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2007

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This paper carries out a comparative study between the novel Relato de um certo Oriente, by brazilian writer Milton Hatoum and Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada Terra, by mozambican writer Mia Couto, with the purpose of verifying the construction strategies of memory. Based on the hypothesis that the memory, in these texts, is imagination of possibilities of the future that does not end up itself in fixed pictures, the thesis highlights the dominant techniques and issues of construction of the narrative through the use made by the authors of the travel motive, of the photograph, and of the epistolography in the composition of memory pictures. In order to reflect on the narrators that movie themselves on the imprecise space of mixtures, involved in complex cultural practices in interaction, it is looked for theoretical support and critical concepts as hybridism, miscegenation, transculturation, creolization and ambivalency. This critical exercise was done in the comparatism horizon of solidarity, proposed by Benjamin Abdala Junior to the studies of Iberian-Afro-American literatures.

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cartas; fotografias; literatura comparada e solidariedade; memórias; mia couto; milton hatoum; mistu comparative literature and solidarity; letters; memories; mia couto; milton hatoum; mixtures; photog

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