A DIÁSPORA DE MARIA. RELAÇÕES SINCRÉTICAS E CULTURAIS ENTRE NOSSA SENHORA, KIANDA E NZUZU EM O OUTRO PÉ DA SEREIA, DE MIA COUTO
2011; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA; Volume: 33; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5212/uniletras.v.33i2.0004
ISSN1983-3431
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies
ResumoMary of Galille would become the biggest female icon of Christianity.However, centuries later, her image crosses the seas, inside the Portuguese caravels as the 'patron saint of colonization'.Mary becomes diasporic and with other deities creates a syncretic relation with them -the same register of the relation with the sacred.From the Portuguese colonization in Africa, the colonizers using religious authority to impose the Christian faith to the Bantu people generated a hybrid and syncretic belief.In the novel O outro pé da sereia (2006), Mia Couto shows how this syncretism united the Portuguese Africa since colonization times to present days, and how Our Lady, the great Christian Mother also underwent this process, becoming in the novel the goddess of African waters.The aim of the article is to analyze this syncretism between the Virgin Mary, Kianda, the Bantu mermaid and Nzuzu, the Mozambican goddess of rivers.The analysis will focus on how the syncretism subverts the relationship between colonizers and colonized, while rescues identities and deep values of (post)-colonial people.
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