Osvaldo Das Neves

Hypermodernization in the Character of Mocambican Literature Osvaldo Das Neves

This paper seeks to analyze the character in the Mozambican literary narrative in the light of Gilles Lipovetsky's philosophical thought. This author defines contemporaneity as a hypermodern time, meaning a moment subsequent to modernity, characterized by a stage of planetary culture in which the achievements of modernity are intensified in such a way that it becomes possible to speak of hypercapitalism, hypercognition, hyperindividualism and hyperconsumption. Based on these subcategories and conceptualizing the character as a synecdoche of the current condition of the African being, the paper adopts a hermeneutic method and dilucidates that the Mozambican literary narrative, through characters such as Zabela, Manua, Carolina and Saíde, raises a reflection around the insertion of the African being in contemporaneity. The paper concludes that the African being has two possibilities of insertion in the hypermodern cosmos: one as an object, the other as a subject. As a transcendence of these conditions, the paper proposes the concept of hypersubjectivation as a possibility of gestation of the hypermodern subject.