ESCRITA DO EU EM TERRA SONÂMBULA, DE MIA COUTO, E MEMÓRIAS DO CÁRCERE, DE GRACILIANO RAMOS.

Abstract

This paper conducted a study of the works Sleepwalking Land, Mia Couto and Memories of Prison Graciliano Ramos, from the perspectives of writing of the I, with emphasis on diary and memories. The research aimed to make a literary relationship between these narratives and themes relating to identity and freedom, trying to identify them and their convergences and divergences, while forms of writing the I. Aimed to demonstrate the power of speech, whether oral, written is, and the effects of these narratives in the constitution of doing and being the man. This is because language acts serve as a reference to the search for identity and recognition process of a nation as well, denouncing the loss of freedom of expression and the right of a people. This study theoretical foundation works The autobiographical pact De-Rousseau to Internet, Philippe Lejeune about writing the I; Cultural identity in postmodernity, Stuart Hall, on sociological conceptions of identity and freedom; Truth and Method I; Hans George Gadamer, on the question of how the game of language combines with the game of art and how one relates to the other; The collective memory of Maurice Halbwachs on collective memory and individual memory; The diary and the narrative of Maurice Blanchot, on how to distinguish the fictional diary the intimis diary. These works and these theorists, among others, worked as media in which we rely on to support this study.