Within marine and corporeal borders: notes on the directions of contemporary Mozambican poetry/Entre fronteiras maritimas e corporeas: apontamentos sobre os rumos da poesia mocambicana contemporanea

The purpose of this study is to analyze the contemporary Mozambican lyrical production from some representative authors whose poetics is especially intimate. Initially, we will retake some elements from the formation of the literature of African countries with Portuguese as official language, especially Mozambique, in order to comprehend the epiccollective motivation at the moment of its consolidation, in the periods that preceded and succeeded the Portuguese decolonization. Afterwards, we will focus on four poets from Mozambique who have recently been published in Brazil, namely: Ana Mafalda Leite, Sangare Okapi, Sonia Sultuane and Hirondina Joshua, taking into account aspects that differentiate them from the poetics of previous periods, such as the valuation of the self, the feminine and the erotic, as well as the revisiting of authors who preceded them and the resumption of themes such as the Island of Mozambique and the Indian Ocean. To support our study, we will refer to Paz (2012), Mbembe (2014) and Noa (2002), among others. Keywords: Mozambican poetry. Indian Ocean. Feminine. Erotic. O proposito deste estudo e analisar a producao lirica mocambicana contemporanea a partir de alguns autores representativos cuja poetica revela-se especialmente intimista. Inicialmente, retomaremos alguns elementos da formacao da literatura dos paises africanos de lingua oficial portuguesa, em especial a de Mocambique, a fim de compreender a motivacao epico- coletiva no momento de sua consolidacao, nos periodos que antecederam e que sucederam a descolonizacao portuguesa. Apos, nos deteremos em quatro poetas de Mocambique que foram recentemente publicados no Brasil, a saber: Ana Mafalda Leite, Sangare Okapi, Sonia Sultuane e Hirondina Joshua, tendo em conta aspectos que os diferenciam da poetica de periodos anteriores, como a valorizacao do individual, do feminino e do erotico, alem da revisitacao de autores que os precederam e da retomada de temas como a Ilha de Mocambique e o Indico. Para embasar nosso estudo, recorreremos a Paz (2012), Mbembe (2014) e Noa (2002), entre outros. Palavras-chave: Poesia mocambicana. Indico. Erotico.