GERMAN VS BRAZILIANS IN NO TEMPO DAS TANGERINAS: THE IDENTITY IN QUESTION

O presente trabalho visa analisar a constituição da identidade e diferença no contexto da representação da imigração alemã em Santa Catarina no romance No tempo das tangerinas (1983), de Urda A. Klueger. O trabalho apresenta, inicialmente, alguns apontamentos teóricos sobre o assunto em questão, com base, principalmente, no pensamento de pesquisadores dos Estudos Culturais: Tomaz Tadeu da Silva, Kathryn Woodward e Stuart Hall. Segue-se a análise do romance, na qual se evidencia como, no contexto de uma comunidade de imigrantes alemães, as diferenças se constituem tanto através da comparação entre indivíduos pertencentes à própria comunidade imigrante, como com respeito aos não alemães com quem estes entram em contato. Diferenças existem, e são necessárias para a constituição identitária dos sujeitos; ressalta-se a capacidade de lidar com essas diferenças e as relações de poder que instauram e motivam a hierarquização entre um indivíduo ou comunidade e seus outros.

AMBIVALENCES IDENTITY IN THE BROTHERS, MILTON HATOUM

This article presents a reading of the novel The Brothers, by Milton Hatoum, focused on the narrator’s condition and his identity implications. Nael, the protagonist narrator, grew blended to a family of his own and random at the same time, without knowing his space amongst the group. The uncertainty of his origins have shaped a floating identity between the position of the son/grandson and the position of the employee aggregated to the group. The ambivalences of this identity are narrated searching for answers, the stabilization of Nael’s identity space. To this end, the main instrument is the memory, the only mean to resignify the past and fulfill the lack of wholeness which accompanies Nael: the wholeness is achieved with the agitation of the past, the memories and especially, the silences and the family forgetfulness. The reflections about the possible identity positions of the narrator find support in the theoretical concepts of memory and identity from a sociological and anthropological perspective. Key words: memory; identity; The Brothers.

Two Clara dos Anjos and one Rosa: identity and representation of black woman in Brazilian Literature

This article presents an analysis of identity and representations of black women in the tales Keep Secret Esmeralda Ribeiro, Rosa and Fusilier and Voices d'Rachel de Queiroz Africa. The story of Esmeralda Ribeiro black author, published in Cadernos Negros: the best short stories (1998) reexamines Clara dos Anjos, Lima Barreto's novel character written between 1904 and 1922. In this work, the author lays bare, in a confessional tone, the daily life of Rio suburbs, from the perspective of racial prejudice, and is the protagonist as a passive woman, submissive, an object. Emerald, black writer, gives Clara a condition of the subject, building an identity as a woman and as a black. It is the chronicle of belonging. Rosa and the Marine and Voices of Africa Rose protagonist appointing chronic-tale first is the outcome of its history in the second text, both published in the first Rachel de Queiroz of chronic compilation entitled The Maiden and Moura Pie (1948 ). Rachel is the text representation of black women because they can not as white women have the lived experience as black to build identity and can do it in generalizing way considering his wife condition and his experience in the feminine universe. There are relations between the texts that go beyond the theme, Space Rio suburb and similarities between Rosa and Clara, Cassi and the Marines. You can see the works a dialogue between sex and race interests, identities and stereotypes, relationships that materialize in Literature.