Deslocamentos e identidades em Nação crioula: a correspondência secreta de Fradique Mendes, de José Eduardo Agualusa

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the novel Creole, by José Eduardo Agualusa, in order to verify how this work, when establishing a dialogue with the historical and literary past, deals with the effect of displacement on identities of the characters. The dissertation seeks to show how the distancing from the socio-cultural space of origin either allows the characters in transit to weave new perspectives on each other or serve to reinforce pre-established concepts. In addition, the objective is to verify how the displacement impacts the reconfiguration of the identities of these subjects. In parallel, when addressing this theme, the novel presents an architecture that uses intertextuality, dialoguing with The correspondence of Fradique Mendes, by Eça de Queiroz, and a contemporary appropriation of the epistolary novel, bringing to the scope of the narrative structure issues similar to those that are presented in the fictional universe. The analysis of the novel will be based on theoretical perspectives aligned with Cultural and Post-colonial Studies. The dissertation, therefore, deals with some issues of latent problematicity addressed by today's literary productions, such as, for example, the displacement of the subject's identity, the ways of apprehending the historical past and the way of inscribing cultural relations in contemporary literature among societies that were colonizing and colonized.