A metaficção nos romances Boca do Inferno e Desmundo, de Ana Miranda

Abstract

This dissertation is a study about the theme of metafiction in the follow narratives: Dias & Dias (2002), Clarice Lispector (1996), A última quimera (1995), Amrik (1997) and, it’s focuses, for the most part, in the historical novels Boca do Inferno (1989) and Desmundo (1996), all of them by Ana Miranda. In the last two novels abovementioned, whose the plots retake the context of the Brazilian colonial period, there is the possibility of thinking of a historical deconstruction, cause the writer uses documents and facts to write hers novels. The work will be built with the objective of observing how the mosaic of historical texts makes possible the Ana Miranda’s construction of the metatextual process in her novels, mainly in Boca do Inferno and Desmundo. Moreover, this work will analyze also the interrelationship discourse of a narrator who uses not only the aesthetic-narrative resource of literature, but also the historical context of the narrative, cause in this way, it will be possible to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of Gregório de Matos Guerra and Oribela who are characters respective of Boca do Inferno and Desmundo, considering the moment of Portuguese colonization in national territory. It will be showed, mainly in these two novels that the instituitions sovereign power as State and Church determine some characters' behavior. Lastily, it will also be analyzed the construction of the female subject, emphasizing, mainly, the repression of her actions in the colonial context of narrative. Therefore, considering the discussion about the historiographical metafiction (HUTCHEON, 1991 and WHITE 1995), It will try to understand the process of metafiction of Ana Miranda as a characteristic that makes possible the problematization of the historical discourses that are retake in hers works. In this way, it will be possible to show the fact that the metafiction is used to establish in the literary text an atmosphere of confrontation and counterpoint, cause It’s possible to deterritorialize the meaning of truth of the official discourses, but not forgetting that the point of view of the narration, being occupied by a subject on the margin, makes to be possible another fictional horizon.