ANCESTRALIDADE BANTU NA FICÇÃO DE LÍLIA MOMPLÉ E DE PAULINA CHIZIANE: FATORES DE LEGITIMAÇÃO DA DESIGUALDADE DE GÉNERO

BANTU ANCESTRY IN THE FICTION OF LÍLIA MOMPLÉ AND PAULINA CHIZIANE: LEGITIMATION FACTORS OF GENDER INEQUALITY

Abstract

With this aticle we aim to reflect to what extnt some uss and customs of Bantu ancestry, reinterpreted in “Os Olhos da Cobra Verde”, by Lília Momplé and “Balada de Amor ao Vento”, by Paulina Chiziane, function as resistance to equality gender in Mozambique. The corpus of the two literary works, extracted through exploratory reading and inductive-explanatory methodology, is constituted by proverbial speeches, whose purpose is to format the minds of young people aiming at the reproduction of the African cosmovision. In these speeches, an intention appears that tends to advocate asymmetrical relationships between men and women. At the end of the analysis of the guidelines of the discursive positions, we conclude that the two writers caricature bantu social realities, implying that certain values of the African ancestral pedagogical vision come into flagrant conflict, either with the pluralism of fragmented models of post-modernity, or with the project for the emancipation of Mozambican women, a fact that turns some values of that pedagogy into a factor of resistance to gender equality.