ANA MIRANDA'S HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION: A READING OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL-FICTIONAL NARRATIVES BOCA DO INFERNO AND DAYS & DAYS

This project whose title is THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION OF ANA MIRANDA: A READING OF THE BIOGRAPHIC-FICTIONAL NARRATIVES BOCA DO INFERNO AND DIAS & DIAS is part of a broader project carried out in the Portuguese Language Literature Studies Group – GELLP, at the University State of Piauí, Campus professor Barros Araújo, which seeks to investigate the literature of the Portuguese language. It is intended to work the biographical-fictional narratives Boca do Inferno (2006) and Dias & Dias (2002), by Ana Miranda under the aspect of Historiographical Metafiction, supported by the studies of Linda Hutcheon (1991), Poetics of Post-Modernism . It seeks to contribute to the advancement of this area of knowledge, with the expansion of its comparative studies of contemporary Brazilian literature. By proposing a reading of Ana Miranda's works, one perceives the relevance of the theoretical approach to the concepts of fiction and metafiction and, in this context, that of Historiographical Metafiction. Reflections around such concepts become crucial when literary analysis turns to fictional narratives that appropriate history to compose the fictional structure. Ana Miranda, in a set of narratives, develops this aesthetic condition, proposing recreations of historical times and storytelling of the lives of characters that have historical references. In contemporary narratives, in which Miranda's works are framed, the use of historical themes has become frequent, or rather, the re-reading of history in a movement of creation and updating; self-reflection is also a crucial characteristic of these narratives. To carry out the research, we relied on scholars such as Hutcheon (1991), Esteves (1998) and Malard (2010).