THE DANCE OF CONFESSIONS: INTRODUCTION TO ORALITY, PERFORMANCE AND INSCRIPTION IN NIKETCHE, BY PAULINA CHIZIANE
Paulina Chiziane. Orality. Mozambican literature.
This dissertation presents a panoramic study concerning the orality in African novel,
particularly, in the book called Niketche, from Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane,
considered one of the firstnovelist from her country to publish in this genre. We
investigated the form inwhich the narration embodies and articulates the three categories
that features an important role to the sensitivity and the oral perception of the written text:
the voice, the letter and the gesture. By the nature of the chosen corpus, such study
permeated discussions about the role of the woman as a writer, weaving interpretations
concerning the fictional, historic and cultural discourses about the women and associating
the space of the artistic creation as a possible territory in which new forms of representation
emerge concerning the feminine. The instruments that served as basis to our reflections are
anchored in the postulates of the literary theory about the orality, such as the works of Paul
Zumthor (2000) and Hampaté-Bâ (1980), as well asthe cultural and post-colonial studies of
Homi K. Bhabha (2003), Frantz Fanon (1983) and Gayatry Spivak (2010).