Maria-Nova, a narradora xamã em Becos da Memória

Resumen

This study seeks to analyze shamanic traits in the character Maria-Nova, narrator of Conceição Evaristo's Becos da Memória (2017). The work is read through the concept of memory equivocation, which seeks to read the literary writing of autobiographical texts as a space constructed more by difference than by similarity. In this sense, memory, forged in this space of controlled equivocation, would act through a translation that plays with the impossibility of the confluence between what occurred and its return in the literary text. The study's conclusions show that in the narrative of Becos da Memória, Maria-Nova acts as a shamanic narrator whose voice represents an otherness that appears as an element resulting from the translation of a past which identity escapes at the same time that a subjectivity is established through the presence of the other. The work also highlights the ancestry present in the writing of a self that, like the shaman, is a being for everyone. Added to this possible interpretation is the concept of escrevivência, which carries as a fundamental trait the understanding of an ancestry that is present in the self that writes, confirming the possibility of autobiographical writing as a space for thinking about the relationships between subjectivity and otherness.