Mariana Brasil: um manuscrito autobiográfico entre fronteiras

Abstract

By means of this Master's dissertation we propose an analysis the relations between selfwriting, migration, and prostitution as they occur in the work O Manuscrito de Sônia, by Mariana Brasil, a Brazilian author now living abroad. Focusing especially on that which is either autobiographical, or that which concerns migration or prostitution, subjects of her literary elaboration, we observe the way in which the consolidation of her writing and work takes place, conceived on the frontier between Brazil and Europe, and her entrance into the literary world. We discuss the themes that permeate the narrative to mobilize, from the analysis of our aforementioned object, O Manuscrito de Sônia, as well as interviews and the work Borboletas de Aço, a dialog with essays concerning the self-writing, the migrant condition and literature, and issues of gender and migrant, having as a goal the understanding of the articulation of these relations as part of a project that found in the experience of moving abroad and the search for identity and a reason to be. We also consider discussions about the alter ego, literariness, deterritoriolization, language, phallocentrism, stigma and human trafficking postulated by theoreticians scattered throughout the work.