Templo de muitos deuses: estratégias de sobrevivência femininaao colonialismo e patriarcado

Abstract

This search is a study that analyzes, from the experiences of the protagonistsin the book O Alegre Canto da Perdiz, by Paulina Chiziane (2008), the vision of threegenerations of women who were: before colonization (Serafina), during (Delfina) andafter (Maria das Dores). Thereunto, we consider, mainly, studies of BONNICI (2012)on postcolonial theory, ADEDEJI (2007) to talk about feminisms and issues ofgender, and DUARTE (2013) with work on survival strategies from the dissimulation,that are some of the authors discussed. These three women are grandmother-mother-daughter, who in the course of the novel tell a little of their stories. Serafinarecalls in many passages the rites practiced by her people, the beauty of thelandscape, the language, the culture that is her, trying to keep a link with your originsto remain as subject by the continuity of its traditions and customs. The most strikingvoice in the novel of the colonization period in Zambezia is the Delfina's voice, thedaughter of Serafina, a woman very eroticized by men. Delfina, all the times,demands from her husband - white and black - to cover her even more with jewels,because in her mind that jewels seem to make her a white woman. Sold by hermother, raped by the man who said to be her husband and lost in hallucinations,Maria das Dores suffers as a result of colonization and mother's choices. Thesurvival, in the colonialism and patriarchy, are the motives for the most part of theactions of these characters.