O nome na formação da identidade: uma análise da antroponímia ficcional no romance Terra sonâmbula, de Mia Couto

Abstract

The present work has as theme the African literature of Portuguese language, more specifically the Mozambican literature, in which is inserted the literary poetic writing of the writer Mia Couto, author of several novels, ales and poetry. Mia Couto is considered one of the most important writers in Portuguese Language and he is one of the most translated writers in the world. His works highlight Africa and its africanities, myths, legends, rituals and traditions, creating through re-creative language, a link between ancestry and modernity. Given this and from the observation of the humor and creativity with who Mia names her characters, it was sought, in this research, to analyze the meanings of the names of the characters in the context of the narrative Terra Sonâmbula (1992/2016), considering the historical context of Mozambique, what is marked by the struggle for independence and the internal and armed civil conflict. Thus, for the accomplishment of this work, a bibliographic research was carried out, the light of theoreticians dealing with the African Literatures and Mozambican Literature, as Francisco Noa (2015;2017), Pires Laranjeira (1992;1995) and Ana Mafalda Leite (2012). As well as those discussing the onomastic and the anthroponymy as Maria Vicentina de Paula do Amaral Dick (1992;1998), Patricia de Jesus Carvalhinhos (2005) e Marcia Sipavicius Seide (2016). It was found in this study that the name both within the literature and outside it is in the most cases, related to the being named, since it can, denote meanings that relate to the aspects, social, political, historical and social of a certain people and that the onomastic and anthroponymy provide a great theoretical support for the completion of the work.