A existência do «eu» feminino negro em «Balada de amor ao vento» de Paulina Chiziane

Paulina Chiziane's work gives voice to the collective self of black and Mozambican women whose destiny is to submit and resign to suffering. This miserable existence is questioned. Women have an important role in the preparation and maintenance of this existence after the purchase, or lobolo, which enslaves wives to the will of a polygamous husband. Along this outrageous path, the female self faces the inevitability of ephemeral happiness and atrocious suffering. In Balada de Amor ao Vento, the protagonist tells her existence, which sways between illusion and disappointment, fortune and misery, and an insatiable desire to love. Sarnau denounces the destiny traced by tradition and habits in which dream and fantasy are her only way to escape. The uncontrollable wind will be her life sail and the water - river, sea and rain – will mean change to a destiny that she denies to search for love