Espaço, memória e identidade em Dois irmãos, de Milton Hatoum
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2018-02-06
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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In this research we propose an analysis of the novel Dois irmãos, by Milton Hatoum, in order to
verify the interweaving between memory, space and identity. In this novel, Hatoum manages to
interweave the space of the house and the city of Manaus with the narrator's need to fill the voids
of his story, which leads us to the hypothesis that the representation of space, in the novel Dois
irmãos, plays a preponderant role in the construction of the narrator's subjective memory. This
research hypothesis is based on the following questions: a) What is new in the theme of memory in
Dois irmãos, which leads us to reflect on the experiences of the contemporary subject? and b) how
does the representation of space affect the subjectivity of the characters and allows us to think
about identity in contemporary society? To answer these questions and reflect on the hypothesis
raised, we chose to structure this work into two chapters, in which theory and criticism are
associated with the analysis of the fictional text in a dialogical way. The treatment given to
memory, space and identity is imbricated in the context of the novel Dois irmãos so that when
talking about the narrator's memory and the constructions of characters identities, the spatial aspect
is indispensable to understand this relation. Thus, in the first chapter titled "Threads of Stories:
Weaving Memories in Dois irmãos by Milton Hatoum," we will problematize how the theme of
memory deals with the relation between memory and forgetfulness, reality and imagination,
individual and collective aspects, to think about the rescue of memory in a contemporary society.
To understand memory, from a traumatic event, we will base our reflections and discussions on the
propositions of Walter Benjamin (1985), Jeanne Marie Gagnebin (2009), Márcio Seligmann-Silva
(2002/2003/2008), Michael Pollak (1989), Primo Levi (2004) and Maurice Halbwachs (2006), to
establish a dialogue with other critics and observe the meanings of memory in Hatoum's novel. In
the second chapter, entitled "Spaces in Ruins: Traffic Pictures in Dois irmãos, by Milton Hatoum,"
we will look at some aspects of space construction in Hatoum's narratives to think about the
relationship between space and characters. The theoretical-critical contribution used to analyze this
relationship between space and subject refers us to the studies of Osman Lins (1976), Michel de
Certeau (2014), Oziris Borges Filho (2007), Luis Alberto Brandão (2013/2015), Doreen Massey
(2015), among others. In this chapter we will also examine, from a Cultural Studies perspective,
the meanings of traffic, exile and wandering, to raise some questions that specifically concern the
condition of the immigrant subject in constant spatial displacement. The representation of the city
and the spaces of intimacy will also be observed as places of social and subjective practices of the
subject to reveal with these spaces, they reveal lived experiences that, in the narrative, are filtered
by the narrator's gaze and (re)constructed by means of your memory.
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SILVA, Alex Bruno da. Espaço, memória e identidade em Dois irmãos, de Milton Hatoum. 2018. 128 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2017.