Memória e identidade em Nove noites, de Bernardo Carvalho
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2016-06-06Autor
Bolognin, Renan Augusto Ferreira
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The following Masters dissertation is a study of memories and cultural identities
from the novel Nove Noites (2002) (NN), written by Bernardo Carvalho. The journalistnarrator
of the novel tells a history about something he did not experienced: the suicide
of the American anthropologist Buell Halvor Quain. Hence, the journalist searches for
memories such as letters, photographs and reports of people lived with Quain in order to
solve the referred suicide. In another narrative instance, we read a will let by a character
that met Buell Quain in Brazil: Manoel Perna. My research hypothesis was about the
entanglement between the narrators from diferents sociohistorical times should make
clear diferents cultural identities and, consenquently, identifications to one cultural
identity and not with another. Concerning to my research, I have demarcated as goals: i.
Demostrating the memories and identity functioning in NN; ii. Contrasting and analysing
the narratives instances; iii. Verifying cultural questions for the NN’s narrative structure.
To explain these memories, I have based this study mainly in the Discurso da narrativa,
from Gérard Genette (1995). The memories of the novel brings inside them other voices
responsible for fragmenting the chronological narrative order and allow me to read the
book by relating it to identity questions. Therefore, I have referred the narrator’s voices
to their sociocultural point of view. Due to that, cultural studies were the basis of this
Masters dissertation: A identidade cultural na pós-modernidade, Da diáspora (2003) and
Who needs identity (2003), all written by Stuart Hall. These references were the main
theoretical basis used in order to understand identities through narrative structures. This
theoretical and analytical process support me to demostrate the identification as a nonexplicit
game inside the memory narration from NN.