As memórias perdidas da nação moçambicana: Terra Sonâmbula e O Outro Pé da Sereia de Mia Couto

The aim of this article is to question the relation between memory and oblivion in the process of constructing national identity, analysing two novels by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto. Terra Sonâmbula and O Outro Pé da Sereia present several characters who travel in search of the lost memories from their own past as well as from the common past of the nation. The first novel deals with the suffering caused by the long civil war in the post‑independence period while the other is focused on the Mozambican colonial history and the subject of slavery.