Rastreando identidades em Mi negro pasado, de Laura Esquivel

• Autor(a) principal: Couto, Nathália Hecz
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/9503
• topic: Mi negro pasado; Memória e identidade; Laura Esquivel; Memory and identity; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

This paper presents an analysis of the novel Mi negro pasado (2018a), by Laura Esquivel, in connection with Como agua para chocolate (1989) and El Diario de Tita (2016a), books that make up a trilogy. The elements presented in the novels become relevant for a memorialistic recovery, which will interfere in identity issues that arise in the narrative. As a general aim, the intention is to analyze Mi negro pasado from the relation of the novel's title with the identity issues that are submerged in the ancestry of the protagonist's family. As an unfolding of these reflections, the aim is to identify which elements were important for the identity revelation of the De la Garza family, in order to understand the role of memory in this process, based on the connection between the mentioned novels. The first chapter, subdivided into three parts, presents considerations about literature as an object of study, as well as a presentation of aspects related to Laura Esquivel's literary production. It also discusses the trilogy of Como agua para chocolate, due to the connection between them. The second chapter, structured in two parts, is dedicated to promoting a dialogue between the studied novel and the theoretical reflections raised to support the analysis. For this purpose, this study initially relied on the studies of Guillermo Batalla (2019), on Mexican identity, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2014), on Mexico as an Afro-Latin American country. Finally, in carrying out the proposed analysis, the memorialistic and identity aspects are crossed, through the reading of authors such as Paul Ricoeur (2007), Aleida Assmann (2011) and Halbwachs (2013), to substantiate the reflections arisen from the questions presented on the paper that involve the field of memory. The research also aims what Zygmunt Bauman (2005), Joël Candau (2018) and Stuart Hall (1997; 2006; 2014) consider about identity. Through this approach, the paper is sought to understand how Horacio's blackness represents a key to the rescue of a past that guards a forgotten identity.