Nas águas do tempo: memorialismo em Flora Thomé

Abstract

This master‘s degree dissertation aims at approaching the poetic prose of the writer Flora Thomé, from the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, trying to analyze the work Retratos (1993), the corpus of this research. We propose an analysis of the work as "a portrait gallery", resulting from "poemas-pintura", since the analyzed poems have as references parts of the writer‘s own life history, and her native town, the city of Três Lagoas-MS, the locus of enunciation where her thoughts and textual strategies are born, which mark her poems and chronicles with an obvious memorial accent. The work is based on approaches focused on cultural studies, intertextuality and transculturality, and particularly in reflections on theories of memory and memorialism. Considering the terminology established by Philippe Lejeune in The autobiographical pact (2008) - the main theoretical basis of this work - we consider Retratos (1993) as an "autobiography in verse," since, in her poems, the author evokes the mnemonic phenomenon as an attempt to rescue the imaginary possession of a past full of characters, places and events that constitute her life and the collective memory of the city Três Lagoas, a city that, as a result of migration, has become a contact zone to experience a rich process of transculturation. Memory records of this developmental process are also present in other works of the author, such as Cirros (1960); Cantos e recantos (1987); Haicais (1999), and Nas águas do tempo (2002). Throughout this discussion and exposure, a comparison of the corpus with a significant bibliography on the subject, we demonstrate the intersubjective and interdiscursive relationship on the work of Flora Thomé with the vivid metaphor, "nas águas do tempo" [in the water of time‖], creative title of one of the writer‘s book, also an inspiration for the title of this dissertation.