A escrita, os animais e os corpos despertados pela clausura, em Carta à rainha louca e Teoria geral do esquecimento

Abstract

This paper proposes a comparative critical exercise between the novels Letter to the mad (2019), by Maria Valéria Rezende, and General Theory of Forgetting (2012), by José Eduardo Agualusa, with the aim of understanding how enclosure operates the traumas and memories of the protagonists memories of the protagonists Isabel and Ludovica. Based on the works chosen, the work seeks to our understanding of the theme, considering relationships of alterity that allow us to examine the the object of study from different perspectives. The enclosure, accompanied by forgetfulness and the writing of the characters, emerges as an intertextual element that dialogues with the body, with history and its ideological variations, promoting reflections on the construction of memory and imagination in relation to the female body. Both novels approach the theme of enclosure from the perspective of Portuguese colonialism, contributing to the debate the formation of nations and their respective identities through the memories that arise during confinement that arise during confinement. The narrators Isabel and co-narrator Ludovica move through the literary literary space, shuffling identities and promoting territorial and social displacements through experiences of the cloister. In this context, the analysis incorporates the notion of animality and becoming-animal as critical tools to explore the relationship between enclosure and identity and identity. Finally, it should be noted that this analysis is developed through a dialog between the works, considering the dimension of affections and relationships that shape the various forms of constitution of the female body in its different manifestations.