Memory and fictionalization of the self: a reading of poetry of Ana Cristina Cesar

Abstract

This essay talks about the writing of Ana Cristina Cesar focusing on different angles: the fictionalization of the self, textual appropriation of the others (“vampiragem”) and pact with the reader. Ana C. covers the mix of (auto) biography and fiction so that the border between reality and fake becomes fluid. It is noticed that the text-collage of the poet introduces a shattered subject, a memory built from the subjectivity of language embedded in the body, which encourages the reader to act as a “hunting dog” before this “I” which assumed to “loyal to the biographical events”, validating the autobiographical pact theorized by Philippe Lejeune.