Narrativas mise en abyme: memória e escrita do trauma em Terra sonâmbula, de Mia Couto, e Meio sol amarelo, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Abstract

This paper discusses how Terra sonâmbula, by Mia Couto, and Meio sol amarelo, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, build mise en abyme narratives related to the memory and the writing about trauma, whose characters describe their war experiences. Especially from the perspective of Jeanne Marie Gagnebin’s (2009) studies about writing as a memory keeping for future generations, it turns out that the characters in these mise en abyme narratives elect writing as a way of elaborating the past and organizing the memory. These are characters-authors who, erasing their own voice, in their literary doing, give voice to the living and dead of wars.