![]() ![]() In Bernardo Carvalho's "Nove Noites" (2002) and "Mongólia" (2003), travel functions as a way to contest the truth-value of the essentialized mode of representation of the other carried out by ethnographic discourses, such as travel guides. In João Gilberto Noll's "Berkeley in Bellagio" (2002) and "Lorde" (2004), the metaphor of travel functions as the representation of a traveler moving toward an understanding of his own self. The dissertation is structured around three movements that correspond to the aesthetic projects of these authors. ![]() ![]() The work of these Brazilian writers problematizes the dichotomies of self-other, north-south, real-fictional, while attempting to rescue the Modernist consideration of the place of language and discourse as a privileged site to analyze matters related to identity-formation. This questioning is transfigured throughout the metaphor of travel, reflecting a movement that happens in global space, but also in the language that constitutes identities. ![]() The present dissertation, in the field of contemporary Brazilian Literature, analyzes how three Brazilian writers, João Gilberto Noll (1946-), Bernardo Carvalho (1960-) and Silviano Santiago (1936-), question essentialized and authoritarian positions of national identity through the development of characters traveling to the space of the Other. ![]()
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