Narrativas de deslocamento: o lugar para sujeitos migrantes em escritas de Antônio Torres

Abstract

The representation of subjects in the condition of exile has been largely recurrent in contemporary literary productions. Numerous are the fictional narratives in which forced mobility, posed by economic, cultural, political instabilities, or stability disturbed by social maladjustment are present, poiting to issues such as belonging and uprooting, the sertaneja diaspora of the Brazilian northeast in the 2oth century and the redefining idenitity driven by new crop contacts. By means of theoretical cutouts of the concepts migration, displacement and places, as well as of the cultural studies grounded by Stuart Hall (2003) , Zygmunt Bauman (2001), Homi Bhabha (1998), Garcia Canclini (2006), among others this study intends to discuss the experience of displacement in the contemporary narrative the sense that the 'places' resulting from the processes of forced mobility represent in the life of the migrant subjects, as well as to verify how the loss of the spacial referents in the life of the migrant subjects, as well as to verify how the loss of the spatial referents modify the uprooted subject. To do so, we analyze excerpts from the contemporary This land (1976), The Dog and the Wolf (1997) and The Bottom of the Needle (2006) by the writer Antônio Torres.