Sleepwalking Land: feeding in times of conflicts
literature; reconnection of knowledge; war; food; hunger.
This research aimed to discuss food insecurity in armed conflict situations from literature. As a corpus we used the book Sleepwalking Land by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto. Served as theoretical references the concept of endemic and epidemic hunger of Josué de Castro; the idea of Food Insecurity as a result and, at the same time, a factor triggering wars and political instability; the notion of food as a weapon of war, by Mikal Saltveit (2003); beyond and the complex thought of Edgar Morin about the human condition expressed in literature. The methodological procedures developed by us included: initial reading of the book, followed by the definition of dimensions for the construction of the analysis material, additional reading of the book to "feed" each one of the defined dimensions and, finally, discussion of the analyzed data. We seek to find in literature, based on Edgar Morin’s notion of "reconnection of knowledge" between science and humanities, a field of reflection that favors the understanding of the complex phenomenon of food and that understands the consequences of conflicts in food behavior.