Possible dialogues: Masculinities subverted in Caio Fernando Abreu and Mia Couto

Abstract

The literature draws, on many lines, traces of the masculinities that subvert the common place and open dialogues between dissonant voices. This work intends to reflect and present some allegorical possibilities brought by two distinguished writers from different countries and contexts: Caio Fernando Abreu (Brazil) and Mia Couto (Mozambique). Ask yourself how a man builds himself as a subject and how he is thought into the processes of alterity? Tracing new paths that are able to redo and undo metaphors in order to supplant the questions raised by this study that seeks, in the symbolic strength of each of the texts, to resignify the alterations, the masculinities in transit and to launch a new look towards the "masculines" subjects and their particularities. There will be glimpses here concepts about gender, attributed roles and attributable to men in the space of narratives, the absence (also presence) of the feminine that raises a search for ' femininity ' asleep as a way of balancing the human in the face of another: the unknown. The archetypes used will be extracted from tales of works Cada homem é uma raça (2013) of Mia Couto and Morangos mofados (2009) of Caio Fernando Abreu.