Não identidade em As Meninas, de Lygia Fagundes Telles

Abstract

This dissertation takes as corpus the novel As meninas, published in 1973, by Lygia Fagundes Telles, Brazilian writer born in São Paulo. The primary element in analysis are the main characters, Ana Clara, Lia and Lorena, whose identities are revealed in training, so undefined and changeable. To start from the hypothesis that the identity of the characters can be fragmented, our purpose is to observe how this possible fragmentation occurs. Stuart Hall (2005, 2012, 2013) discusses this identity fragmentation, which, in Lygia’s novel in study, expands and breaks the narrative structure, implemented in four narrative focuses: in each one of the protagonists and in a fourth narrator. This multiple mode of narration allows us to view the different identities that each character has, because there is an increase of point of views. Zygmunt Bauman, with his concept of liquidity (1998, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012), confirms our research about mobility of identities. Authors such as Zilá Bernd (2011), Tomaz Tadeu da Silva (2012) and Kathryn Woodward (2012), with their respective studies on identity, also thicken our dissertation. Methodologically, our research is bibliographic and analytical.