A questão ancestral em Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra, de Mia Couto

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss in the book A river called a time a house called earth (2003), written by Mia Couto, the ancestral question as an aesthetic resource for the rescue of the tradition, because the ancestry is the basis of experience of Black African cultures. For this, the dialogue is established from readings on culture in the afro-centered and pan-Africanist perspective, with reference to Achille Mbembe and other theoreticians, especially blacks and Africans. The research demands a conceptualization about the term ancestrality, which directs the research to discussions through, mainly, the studies carried out by Fábio Leite, Eduardo de Oliveira, Pe. Raul Altuna e Irene Dias de Oliveira. In this search, reflections on the Traditional Bantu Religion, as well as its close relationship with the ancestral question were brought to the analysis. The process requires a transition through values, customs, beliefs and the African-African way of being and being in the world, with reference to the varied cultural complexes, in particular, the Bantu culture.