Mulheres em deslocamento: o espaço transcultural em Azul Corvo, de Adriana Lisboa, e Algum Lugar, de Paloma Vidal

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the presence of the category of space as a textual remark in the novels Crow Blue (2014) and Algum Lugar {Some Place} (2009) by Adriana Lisboa and Paloma Vidal, respectively. We understand the literature produced by these authors as discourses representations of a poetics for diversity in the context of contemporary displacements. Thus, we briefly address the context of globalization movements and the changes about the idea of subject from contemporaneity. The displacements of the female protagonists on both plots affect their self-perception inwards the different spaces they start to occupy when moving from one place to another, from one country to another, from one culture to another. As we read the texts, we seek to problematize, due to the situation that configures them, the space in which the experiences of the female characters occur, not only as the physical environment in which their trajectories take place, but as a subjective process and effect of the identities construction in a context marked by cultural transits. Based on the theoretical collaborations of Brandão (2013) and Massey (2004, 2008 and 2020), we problematize the definition of space to think about its relationship with the literary text, with the written production of women in Brazil and, finally, we analyze the literary construction of the selected category in the novels under study as a reflection of the subjects who narrate their transits across the Americas. We also focus on the perspective of Butler (2017) and Ricoeur (2014) to think about the possibility of subjects giving an account of themselves, since the narratives under study are built mainly from the perspective of one person reporting the discourse. We understand that the first-person narrative is arranged as representative for the condition of a fractured self, into which the protagonists find themselves. Finally, we address the idea of culture (KEESING, 2014; EAGLETON, 2011) to think about it as a concept in relation to the cultural boundaries that cross the constitution of both novels and of their protagonists as subjects of the fracture on the contemporary, but who seek to re-signify their lives in the displacement as an experience of fragmentation and transculturality (DAGNINO, 2012).