Histórias desenraizadas: identidade e dupla consciência na literatura e no Facebook

Abstract

The main objective of the present PhD thesis is to discuss the condition of people who have been in transit, deterritorialized, living intense displacements and have externalized a feeling of duplicity, known as double consciousness, through literary accounts or through the new digital narratives on the social networks. In this sense, the counterpoint is the autobiography by Ariel Dorfman, a Chilean American writer, whose writings were singled out as the literary reference, and were also compared to the narratives found in blogs or, more specifically, in the interface of the Facebook, a social network that encourages virtual relationships and simultaneous exchange of information. Other bicultural writers, who have expressed their biculturality and, consequently, their double consciousness, were contemplated as well. In order to achieve our goal, we conducted a through literature review, contextualizing a society in movement. Such society has been more deterritorialized, fluid, hypermodern, and has undergone impacts in its internal dynamics. Moreover, it was conducted a participant observation in some profiles in the Facebook. The selected comments and posts denoted the feeling of double consciousness and other manifestations on an internal duplicity state of mind. The narratives proposed by the selected authors were compared to the new narratives produced in digital environments. Earlier in time, both literature and the press were characterized as means of production and transmission of the discourse on cultural dilemmas in view of the constant displacements. However, nowadays, the social networks have been added to those means and have been at hand for the common citizen, who can have his/her culture of origin, his/her relatives and friends at a close range in the cyberspace