MOBILIDADES NARRATIVAS E REINSCRIÇÕES IDENTITÁRIAS: DESLOCAMENTOS DE RÍSIA E DE KEHINDE EM AS MULHERES DE TIJUCOPAPO, DE MARILENE FELINTO, E UM DEFEITO DE COR, DE ANA MARIA GONÇALVES
Brazilian literature. Um defeito de cor. As mulheres de Tijucopapo. Displacements. Identity reconstruction.
In Brazilian novels As mulheres de Tijucopapo (1982), by Marilene Felinto, and Um defeito de cor (2006), by Ana Maria Gonçalves, the trajectories of the protagonists Rísia and Kehinde, respectively, are delineated. Their narrative voices emerge in constant dialogue with experiences of loss, uprooting, and resistance. This research aims to analyze the multiple displacements that structure the lives of these characters, understood not only as geographical movements but, above all, as existential and bodily processes traversed by historical violence and the continuous attempt of identity reinscription. Our analysis is grounded, among other authors, in Esposito (2016), who problematizes the dichotomy between person and thing and proposes the body as a critical category; on Fanon (1952/2020), who highlights the difficulty of building one's own bodily schema under conditions of racial and colonial domination and in Lorde (1984/2020), which points out the transformation of silence into language and action as a path to self-agency. From this analysis, it is observed that the protagonists go beyond forced displacements and, through subjective desires for search, appropriate voluntary displacements, creating new belongings and configuring trajectories of agency and identity reinvention.