Mia Couto – a proclamação da Leoa: na linha de fogo...

Esta leitura do romance A confissao da Leoa, do escritor mocambicano Mia Couto, acompanha nele as questoes da animalidade do homem e da violencia na relacao entre os generos, ambas colocadas do ponto de vista etico e politico. A narrativa do romance reparte-se significativamente por dois olhares diferentes: o do cacador Arcanjo Baleiro, e o de Mariamar, uma das mulheres da aldeia na qual – identificada com a leoa do titulo – se recortara a figura da histerica, irredutivel as imposicoes do simbolico estabelecido pela tradicao do lugar de Kulumani... Os acontecimentos transpoem, da alegoria cosmologica inscrita na fabula ai contada por Martina Baleiro – a mae do cacador – as tensoes e as assimetrias produzidas pela violenta fronteira que, entre o feminino e o masculino, uma certa escrita, subversora de todas as formas de dominio, mostrara ser historicamente instavel. ******************************************************************** Mia Couto – the proclamation of the Lioness: on the firing line... Abstract: My reading of the novel Confession of the Lioness, by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto, follows the questions of the animality of man as well as those of the violence in the relationship between genders, both posed from an ethical and political perspective. The novel’s narrative is significantly shared by two distinctive viewpoints – that of the hunter Arcanjo and that of Mariamar, one of the women identified with the lioness of the title, but also the hysterical figure that resists the symbolic order of traditional Kulumani... The events and the characters of the novel transpose the cosmological allegory inscribed in the fable told by Martina – the hunter’s mother – the tensions and asymmetries there set by the violent boundary that separates the masculine from the feminine, and which a subversive writing that undermines all kinds of dominion eventually suspends, and proves to be historically unstable.  Keywords: novel; politics; sovereignty; otherness; gender.