A busca pela identidade nas obras Ana Z . Aonde vai você?, de Marina Colasanti, e a Bolsa Amarela, de Lygia Bojunga

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze the construction of the identity of the protagonists in the works Ana Z. aonde vai você? (2007), by Marina Colasanti, and A bolsa amarela (2018), by Lygia Bojunga. It is characterized by being a bibliographic research, which qualifies as a comparativist method described by Carvalhal (2006). The theoretical concepts that helped this reflection involve the child, identity, imagination, the construction of the feminine, and symbolic elements. To this end, concepts and contributions from authors such as Piaget (1999), Vygotsky (2009), Sosa (1990), Held (1980), Pondé (2000), Lima [n.d.], Woitowicz (2010), and CEIA (2018) were discussed. Then, the works A bolsa amarela and Ana Z. aonde vai você? were analyzed separately, considering context of production, author data, structure, themes, and narrative procedures. After this previous survey, a comparative analysis of the two works was made, considering the same concepts observed separately. The final considerations in this research are that the search for identity runs through both works and that this can be seen in different structural and thematic aspects, which are configured in alternatives that the authors found to approach the construction of the self by the child. In A bolsa amarela, this process is experienced especially in Raquel's relationships, which involve society as a whole, whereas in Ana Z. aonde vai você? the search for identity focuses on the broader question of the feminine, which involves only herself, being a more intimate and personal search.