Representações femininas, identitárias e memorialistas na obra Dois Irmãos de Milton Hatoum

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the issues related to female, identity and memorialist representation specifically in Dois Irmãos, a novel written by the Amazonian Milton Hatoum published in 1989. The objective is to analyze the novel in question from the perspective of gender studies, collective memory and identity. The theoretical framework that underlies this study understands that the memorial aspect that permeates the novel fits the meaning of Maurice Halbwachs (2003) about collective memory, which verifies the power of social life in human life and the concept of the materialistic aspect of feminine memory postulate by Michelle Perrot (1989). Studies related to identity were also constituted as theoretical scope, with Bhabha (1998) and Hall (1999), as well as aspects related to representation and discourse. The methodological approach adopted here starts with a bibliographical and qualitative research that builds on theoretical revision, also considering the literary aspect of the narrator, time and space in the novel. From the analysis of the records of female memories and other characters it becomes possible to understand the materialization of the symbolic universe of female memory. This study discusses and presents reflections about the author with the Amazon universe, biographical aspects, critical reception, and its importance in the contemporary literature scenario. Then, the text turns to the analysis of studies regarding representation, memory and identity relating them to the novel and literature. It is also verified how the narrative construction of the narrator Nael occurs, and how the memories of the female characters are built during the novel through the exploration of the process of description of the objects and spaces that enable the connection between the past and the gift. It also addresses the close relationship between memory and identity in the composition of female characters, analyzing their universe, considering their different profiles inserted in the same society, based on theories about gender and feminism with the contributions of Scott (1989). and Beauvoir (1957). In addition, discussions about female representation and gender with the contributions of Silva (2015) and other theorists are added. Finally,these discussions are intended to provide an understanding of female representation in Milton Hatoum's novel by emphasizing the different ways in which women behave as protagonists and how they relate to the memorialistic, identity, cultural, and historical aspects of contemporary literary writing