Man, waters, borders, and words

José Eduardo Agualusa and identity construction in transit

Abstract

The text that follows the search analyzes how possibilities are given by the literary narrative from a writer who defends here as an example of what Stuart Hall calls "fragmented individual". First, the need to discuss identity is listed, involving and starting from a central point, namely, an Angolan person José Eduardo Agualusa, a writer with wide circulation in Portuguese-speaking countries and a wide range of countries and languages. The central objective is to analyze the writer as a subject, mainly as a multiple subject, based on his experience of identity decentralization, which is also territorial, transnational. It is about perceiving how his work makes a movement that is, in a way, a convex mirror of his own experience.