Mia Couto’s Terra Sonambula and the Metaphors in the Post-Colonial Literature Context

Abstract

This work aims at analyzing the metaphorical constructions in Mia Couto’s novel, Terra Sonambula, mostly from the perspective of the post-colonial literature. Thus, it depicts the aspects of Mozambican tradition, mainly in the traits of orality within the ethical codes of African people, as well as the historical events which interpose as keys to the tropos’ stylistic development along the novel itself. The metaphors will be related to the independence and civil war contexts, of the Mozambican ethos and its changes within the war atmosphere, developed through images which enhance fear, fleeing and the metaphors of nature maculated in the conflict.