Memória e Identidade em Sérgio Y. vai à América e Cloro de Alexandre Vidal Porto

Abstract

This work has as its research themes memory and identity in contemporary literature. For that, we carried out na analysis of the novels Sergio Y. vai à América e Cloro by the author Alexandre Vidal Porto. Both are characterized as contemporary literature and bring a relationship with memory and identity from LGBTQIAPN+ perspective. In view of the above and with the reading of the works, we raise the following questions: What is the place and importance of Alexandre Vidal Porto in the context of contemporary literature? How is the identity memory of the protagonists built in the works Sérgio Y. vai à América e Cloro? What is the dialogic relationship between the novels Sérgio Y. vai à América e Cloro? The study proposes as a general objective to analyze the memorialistic and identity process in the contemporary novels Sergio Y. vai à América e Cloro from Porto. Thus, in order to achieve goals, it has the following specific objectives: to understand the place and importance of Alexandre Vidal Porto in the context of contemporary literature; investigate how the memory and identity construction process of the protagonists takes place from the LGBTQIAPN+ perspective; and to identify how the dialogical relationship of the works Sérgio Y. vai à América e Cloro is built. Thus, this research is systematized from the following theoretical framework: Agamben (2009), Alós (2012), Candau (2011), Carvalhal (2006), Halbwachs (2006), Perrone-Moisés (2016), Pollak (1992; 1989), Posso (2005), Porto (2014; 2018), e Schøllhammer (2009), among others. The methodological proposal started from a qualitative bibliographical research. To be contemporary is to belong to a time and to have the ability to distance oneself from it in order to understand it better, that is, to have a common agreement with time itself. We understand with our research that contemporary literature is characterized as a rescue from the past to the present, transformed a new guise. This literature comes into play when it decides to confront classical and conservative writing in a renewing perspective and may be based on everyday tragedies, characters with family conflicts and social issues. The two main themes which are memory and identity are presented individually and collectively and identity as na image that the individual builds of himself. The results point to collective memory being characterized as a process of identity reconstruction, in which they are made up of fragments and these fractions form the social place of the individual and his relationships with others.