A confluência identitário-espacial em "Ponciá Vicêncio", de Conceição Evaristo, e em "Maria Altamira", de Maria José Silveira

Abstract

Our research seeks to analyze the identity constitution of subjects on the move in the novels Ponciá Vicêncio (2017), by Conceição Evaristo, and Maria Altamira (2020), by Maria José Silveira. We understand that both narratives of the writers that make up our research corpus present a poetics of spatial diversities in the context of displacements, which constitute fragmented subjects. They are reconstructed by new meanings based on the comings and goings of their protagonists. Thus, we will discuss, in the light of cultural studies and feminist literary criticism, the movements of the protagonists Ponciá Vicêncio, Maria Altamira and Alelí through the spaces in which their experiences occur. In our study, we start from the theoretical-critical perspective of the notion of identity related to the notion of space as inseparable elements, since space, in addition to being where the narrative takes place, is also the place where speeches are delivered, enabling the construction subjective of the subjects. In this way, the movements made by the characters reflect on their identity construction. As we read the narratives, we will examine how the protagonists Ponciá Vicêncio, Maria Altamira and Alelí are marked by their experiences in the spaces in which they travel. In our reading, we understand that both novels converge in the search for representation and attempt to emancipate marginalized female subjects. Furthermore, this search occurs in the movements and experiences of the female characters, not only in the physical environment in which their trajectories occur, but also in the process and subjective effect of the construction of identities in a context marked by social, gender and social exclusions of racism. To do so, we will rely on the reflections of Stuart Hall (2006), Bauman (2005), Spivac (2010), Foucault (2002), Butler (2018), Saffioti (2000), Yi-Fu Tuan (2015), Homi Bhabha (1998), Bourdieu (1990) among others. Finally, we understand that the identities of the characters Ponciá Vicêncio, Maria Altamira and Alelí are constantly constituted and, by this reason, reconfigured through their spatial displacements.