Zara, the which, and the african short story: the bantu tradition in mozambican short story

Abstract

The mozambican short stories are built on bantu cultural tradition spread by orality, which according to portuguese reasearcher Ana Mafalfa Leite, is an important element for african people affirmation. That said, this paper has the objective to analyse the short story “Zara, a feiticeira de Gara-Nkuwa” (2013), wrote by mozambican Aldino Muianga. The annoyance felt by a woman at a cat’s visitation to her house is the source of an astounding narrative whose unity of effect, in the words of american author Edgar Allan Poe, reveals closely connected to mozambican social formation. This study aims to estabilish relations between literature and society and is intended to underscore whichcraft and zoomorphism in bantu people society.