A memória e a identidade na obra A chave de casa, de Tatiana Salem Levy.

Abstract

This research uses the novel A chave de casa (The Key to the House) by Tatiana Salem Levy as its corpus of study and aims to analyze the interrelation between memory and the protagonist's identity, considering how the themes of immigration, exile, and family heritage permeate her lived experiences and contribute to her identity construction. To this end, a qualitative methodological approach is adopted, with an emphasis on literary analysis, grounded in the conceptions of memory and identity from the perspective of theorists such as Stuart Hall (2022), Zygmunt Bauman (2009), Maurice Halbwachs (2024), Joel Candau (2023), and Julia Kristeva (1994). It starts from the idea that identity is constructed in the transit between time and space, articulating past and present, and contributes to understanding how history, permeated by geographical and affective displacements, opens space for links between personal narrative and collective memory, based on the memories and silences transmitted between generations. In this context, it also focuses on understanding the body as a space for the inscription of memory, which manifests suffering, pain, desire, and resistance; while acts of naming can indicate tensions between belonging and silencing. By discussing these issues and their insertion into the novel within contemporary Brazilian literature, this study proposes to broaden the debate on how fiction can problematize and resignify the relationships between memory and identity.