Female and black identity trajectories in Mozambique and Brazil

The study of writings from the perspective of black women their art strategy and political vision contributes to affirming the black female experience from a perspective that differs from submission or the crystallisation of stereotypes recognising a necessary tension between equality and difference between individual rights and group identities so that more democratic results can be achieved through insubordination and identity resistance. In view of this we sought to investigate the forms of sexist and racist exclusion that persist in Mozambique and Brazil through a relational approach between the perspectives of two writers the Mozambican Paulina Chiziane and the Brazilian Conceição Evaristo focusing on the one hand on the characters in the novels 'Niketche uma história de poligamia' (Niketche a story of polygamy) and 'Ponciá Vicêncio' and on the other on the political stance of the authors themselves as activists.