THE INTERSTICAL SPACES IN THE PROCESS OF (RE) CONSTRUCTION OF THE IDENTITY OF THE FEMININE IN RISIA N'AS MULHERES DE TIJUCOPAPO, DE MARILENE FELINTO
Memories; Interstical spaces; As mulheres de Tijucopapo.
This dissertation presents a study about the book ‘As mulheres de Tijucapapo’ (1992), by Marilene Felinto, which is about the lost identity search during her moving from Recife to São Paulo. During her trip the Character, Rísia, leaves for searching the lost link of her origin. In a nine-month trajectory, she goes into an adventure time during her return in searching for herself through the contact with her mother’s homeland. Suddenly, the character narrator let us know about the importance, memory and remembrance about the formation of the social lays. Risia, in her eternal lost link search, simbolizes the permanent cultural identity, which finds itself in a multifaced and mobile form, which is in fact in construction. Nevertheless, the search of the origin is not a warrant of a satisfactory encounter with Risia herself, because she still needs to learn how to handle whith the suffering and love experience. The hegemoniac speech that defines the multiracial and cultural Brazilian Society. The Northeastern identity auxiliates in the evidence of the pain caused by the racial, cultural and social defferences. Despite the narrator character and protagonist lives in a big city (São Paulo),she decides to come back to her first time and space of her cultural identity to try to know herself better at the circunstance for her acceptance will begin by the identification with her place of origin (Pernambuco). The resources which were used to give foundation to make our reflections are based on the literary theory, which surround the psychoanalitic analysis as Julia Kristevas’s (1989), Malvine Zalcberg’s (2003) and Maria Rita Kells’s (1992) writings. Besides, we can cite Michele Perrot’s cultural and post-colonial theory (2005).