We intend in this article to analyze the tale "Meia culpa, meia própria culpa," by Mia Couto, showing one of many possible perspectives of analysis of the author's work. Our analysis has by objective to explicit the between-place in Couto´s discourse, highlighting the social practices present in literary discourse, showing how the author relates his personages with the story of Mozambique and verifying the representation of the female figure from the perspective of identity in construction. We think the work of Mia Couto through antagonistic relations: colonizer / colonized, man / woman, white / black, dominating / dominated, etc. We chose this perspective because Mia Couto be a plural writer and Mozambique is a diverse country.We have as theoretical support Pierre Bourdieu with the work A dominação masculina (2012) to highlight the function of women and the social practices; also we rely on theorists such as Stuart Hall, A identidade cultural na pós-modernidade (2011) and Frantz Fanon Pele negra, máscaras brancas (2008), among others, to discuss the issues of identity.