PLCS 10 (2003)
Articles/Artigos

Mozambique in Transition in the Narratives of Lília Momplé

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62791/0jx62467

Published 2017-03-13

Abstract

Abstract: Without over-dramatizing and without sentimentalizing, Lília Momplé has managed to portray a multi-layered portrait of Mozambique and its people through the enormous strains and upheavals of its history over the last seventy years. Above all her texts foreground a wide range of Mozambican characters intent on preserving not only their families and their country, but also their own self-respect. It is Momplé’s concerns about education and learning from the past, as well as her portrayals of women that will be discussed in the course of this paper, after an overview of her work and her stylistic tendencies.