The mozambican body cindido: history, myth and fiction in the two Shades of the River, by Joao Paulo Borges Coelho

THE FICTION OF JOHN PAUL BORGES COELHO SHOWS UP A MOZAMBICAN BODY SPLIT BETWEEN THE SOUTH AND THE NORTH, BETWEEN OLD TRADITIONS AND THE NEW FORMS OF UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF MOZAMBIQUE. IT TRIES TO BREAK, SO, WITH THE BINARY DICHOTOMIES, NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES AMID TENUOUS AND FRAYED FRONTIERS. THE NOVEL AS DUAS SOMBRAS DO RIO PRESENTS SOME ALLEGORIES AND METAPHORS TO REFLECT ABOUT THE RELATION SPACE-STORM, OF THE CULTURAL IMAGINARY THING AND OF THE RELIGIOUSMYTHICAL UNIVERSE THAT THEY PERMEATE THE MOZAMBICAN SOCIETY.