Between Identity and Structural Fragmentations: Adriana Lisboa's Contemporary Novels

Abstract

This article offers some reflections on the contemporary novel, calling attention to the fact that in itself it replicates the postmodern context in which it was created through its representation of fragmented structural identities and elements. This implies that the epic forms that have long illustrated the act of narrating have had to adapt to the instability of time, through \textit{unreliable} hybrid narrators, selective and / or relativized omniscience, flow of consciousness, and spatial, structural and temporal fragmentation, among other characteristics of the contemporary novel that, in many cases, make traditional classifications more difficult. So, taking into account the ideas of theorists and researchers such as Rosenfeld (1973), Bauman (2001) and Hall (2011), among others, our intention is to problematize these questions, taking as our corpus of analysis the novels Rakushisha (2007) and Hanói (2013), by Adriana Lisboa.