The floating experience of Paulina Chiziane: internal exiles and self-written in Niketche

Abstract

The focus of this article covers on the representations of internal exile of characters in Niketche, uma história de poligamia, by Paulina Chiziane. The Mozambican writer appeals to tradition to produce a novel that presents itself, in the words of Russell G. Hamilton, as a story of the “narrator of Niketche, she being who echoes the voice of the implied author”. Creating the character of writer/storyteller, which unfolds in various roles, Paulina Chiziane founds a narrative strategy to put in way to speculate scene, because it is seen as another writing, like a double of herself. In this sense, stands the recognition that the subject is built within the meaning and cultural representations systems. And this inside of the floating experience between two worlds (fiction / reality, tradition / modernity) that opens the possibilities of construction of internal exile borders.