Divinely human names: anthroponymy in Mia Couto's work
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Resumo: | Language as a human possibility of telling its world experience carries an unsolvable condition of not saying it all. Although it may refer to everything, language does not exhaust the enunciable. The different speeches about God are also in the dynamic and apparently paradoxal game of the capability of the human language of covering or not the world. The religious language in its wish to talk about the mysterious reality of the Deity does frequently so through metaphors – a basic constitutive element of the poetic speech. Based on these assumptions- on the theoretical trail of the hermeneutics by Gadamer and Ricoeur –, the paper studies some selected texts by Mia Couto to state that if the Numinous cannot be adequately named, on the other hand the names we make up for us can talk about God. More exactly, the character-names created by the Mozambican writer, despite the fact of being aphasic and crazy because they stage precisely the marginal human condition, are shown with an intense deciphering power of the world. This is why they are offered as an instigating theologizable literary construct.Keywords: Mia Couto. Mozambican Literature. Literary Criticism. Theology. Theopoetics |
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Divinely human names: anthroponymy in Mia Couto's workNomes divinamente humanos: antroponímia na obra de Mia CoutoLanguage as a human possibility of telling its world experience carries an unsolvable condition of not saying it all. Although it may refer to everything, language does not exhaust the enunciable. The different speeches about God are also in the dynamic and apparently paradoxal game of the capability of the human language of covering or not the world. The religious language in its wish to talk about the mysterious reality of the Deity does frequently so through metaphors – a basic constitutive element of the poetic speech. Based on these assumptions- on the theoretical trail of the hermeneutics by Gadamer and Ricoeur –, the paper studies some selected texts by Mia Couto to state that if the Numinous cannot be adequately named, on the other hand the names we make up for us can talk about God. More exactly, the character-names created by the Mozambican writer, despite the fact of being aphasic and crazy because they stage precisely the marginal human condition, are shown with an intense deciphering power of the world. This is why they are offered as an instigating theologizable literary construct.Keywords: Mia Couto. Mozambican Literature. Literary Criticism. Theology. TheopoeticsA linguagem, enquanto possibilidade humana de dizer sua experiência de mundo, porta a condição insanável de não dizer tudo. Ainda que possa referir tudo, a linguagem não esgota o enunciável. No jogo dinâmico e aparentemente paradoxal de a linguagem humana poder e não poder abarcar o mundo, colocam-se também os diferentes discursos sobre Deus. A linguagem religiosa, em seu anseio por falar a realidade misteriosa da Divindade, o faz frequentemente através de metáforas – elemento constitutivo básico do discurso poético. Sustentado sobre tais pressupostos – na esteira teórica da hermenêutica de Gadamer e Ricoeur –, o artigo percorre alguns textos seletos do escritor Mia Couto para afirmar: Se o Numinoso não pode ser propriamente nomeado, em contrapartida os nomes que inventamos para nós podem falar de Deus. Mais exatamente: os nomes-personagens criados pelo autor moçambicano, ainda que afásicos e tresloucados, justamente porque encenam a condição humana marginal, apresentam-se com intenso poder de decifração do mundo. Oferecem-se, por isso mesmo, como instigante constructo literário teologizável.Palavras-chaves: Mia Couto. Literatura moçambicana. Crítica literária. Teologia. Teopoética.Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo2011-12-16info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionArtigo avaliado pelos Paresapplication/pdfhttps://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/teoliteraria/article/view/2295510.19143/2236-9937.2016v1n2p116-143Teoliteraria - Journal of Literatures and Theologies (On Line) ISSN 2236-9937; Vol. 1 No. 2 (2011): Dizer Deus na Literatura: a Questão da Linguagem Teológica; 116-143Teoliteraria - Revista de Literaturas y Teologías (On Line) ISSN 2236-9937; Vol. 1 Núm. 2 (2011): Dizer Deus na Literatura: a Questão da Linguagem Teológica; 116-143TEOLITERARIA - Revista de Literaturas e Teologias; v. 1 n. 2 (2011): Dizer Deus na Literatura: a Questão da Linguagem Teológica; 116-1432236-9937reponame:Teoliteráriainstname:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)instacron:PUC_SPporhttps://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/teoliteraria/article/view/22955/16623Cantarela, Antonio Geraldoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2022-12-13T19:00:50Zoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/22955Revistahttps://revistas.pucsp.br/teoliterariaPRIhttps://revistas.pucsp.br/teoliteraria/oaialex@teoliteraria.com||teoliteraria@teoliteraria.com2236-99372236-9937opendoar:2022-12-13T19:00:50Teoliterária - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)false |
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Divinely human names: anthroponymy in Mia Couto's work Nomes divinamente humanos: antroponímia na obra de Mia Couto |
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Language as a human possibility of telling its world experience carries an unsolvable condition of not saying it all. Although it may refer to everything, language does not exhaust the enunciable. The different speeches about God are also in the dynamic and apparently paradoxal game of the capability of the human language of covering or not the world. The religious language in its wish to talk about the mysterious reality of the Deity does frequently so through metaphors – a basic constitutive element of the poetic speech. Based on these assumptions- on the theoretical trail of the hermeneutics by Gadamer and Ricoeur –, the paper studies some selected texts by Mia Couto to state that if the Numinous cannot be adequately named, on the other hand the names we make up for us can talk about God. More exactly, the character-names created by the Mozambican writer, despite the fact of being aphasic and crazy because they stage precisely the marginal human condition, are shown with an intense deciphering power of the world. This is why they are offered as an instigating theologizable literary construct.Keywords: Mia Couto. Mozambican Literature. Literary Criticism. Theology. Theopoetics |
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