AT THE FOOT OF A TREE: THE STUDYOFAFRICAN COSMOPERCEPTIONS IN MIA COUTO

The text intends to analyze the trees as a symbolic element linked to African cosmoperceptions of the sacred, traditions, ancestry and time, present in the work "A Varanda do Frangipani", by Mia Couto. The approach in African literature reveals that the physical representations of nature bring us closer to the cosmological universe of the past and present. In the first part, we present the vital force of trees and the power of African-Mozambican cultures. In the second, we analyze African cosmoperceptions and what "the trees" teach us in Coutiana's work. We dare to say that, when crossing walls and worlds through the word and imagination, with whole bodies and souls, we are Africanized!