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<journal-id>2182-4452</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Internacional em Língua Portuguesa]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[RILP]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2182-4452</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Associação das Universidades de  Língua Portuguesa (AULP)]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2182-44522017000200179</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31492/2184-2043.rilp2017.32/pp.181-190</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[A mulher nos contos de Mia Couto: uma leitura pós-colonial]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Pereira]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Márcia Moreira]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade Nove de Julho/ Instituto Singularidades  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Brazil</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>31</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>31</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>32</volume>
<fpage>179</fpage>
<lpage>188</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2182-44522017000200179&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2182-44522017000200179&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2182-44522017000200179&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Resumo Como um conjunto de teorias que analisa as implicações políticas, filosóficas, culturais e literárias deixadas pelos colonizadores nos locais que colonizaram, adotando em relação a elas uma perspectiva crítica e contra elas uma prática combativa, o pós-colonialismo pressupõe a ocorrência de uma produção literária - a literatura pós-colonial - que privilegia a cultura de todos aqueles que foram colonizados pelas nações europeias. Nas literaturas africanas de expressão portuguesa, seguindo essa trilha aberta pela expressão estética na perspectiva do pós-colonialismo, a mulher passa a ser representada como alguém que começa a &#8220;sentir a terra&#8221;, livre de tabus e de imposições, libertando-se, parcialmente, de imposições masculinas e assumindo um papel de sujeito de sua própria história. Nesse sentido, este artigo procura analisar dois contos de Mia Couto (&#8220;O perfume&#8221;, em Estórias abensonhadas e &#8220;O cesto&#8221;, em O fio das missangas), a partir da perspectiva teórica dos Estudos Pós-Coloniais, destacando o papel que a mulher representa nestes contos.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract As a set of theories that analyzes the political, philosophical, cultural and literary implications left by the colonizers in the colonized countries, adopting a critical perspective and a combative practice against them, the postcolonialism presupposes the occurrence of a literary production, which privileges the culture of all those who have been colonized by European nations. In Portuguese-African literature, following the perspective of postcolonialism, the woman is represented as someone free from taboos and impositions by male power, and assuming a role of subject of its own history. Therefore, this article analyzes two short stories by Mia Couto (&#8220;O perfume&#8221;, in Estórias abensonhadas and &#8220;O cesto&#8221;, in O fio das missangas), from the theoretical perspective of Postcolonial Studies, highlighting the role of women is this short stories.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Mia Couto]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Mulher]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Contos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Estudos Pós-Coloniais]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Mia Couto]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Woman]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Short stories]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Postcolonial Studies]]></kwd>
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