Do silêncio à enunciação: formação de identidades nas narrativas de Moacyr Scliar

Abstract

Tzvetan Todorov’s premise on the importance of the subject, when away from his home country, to recognize the enunciation place in order to go on being, was our starting point to analyze, in four of Moacyr Scliar’s narratives, the ways five of his characters, exiled in Brazil at first or second generation, searched for such a place, thus creating new identities or becoming hybrids. Edward Said, who wrote about the exile, Stuart Hall, who wrote about identity and, finally Nestor Canclini, who wrote about hybrid cultures, supplied us with theory for the analysis.