Deslocamentos na escrita da memória: o retorno em Aline Motta e Aimé Césaire

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the notion of return in A água é uma máquina do tempo, by the writer and multimedia artist Aline Motta, through a comparative analysis with Aimé Césaire’s classic work Diário de um retorno ao país natal. While the Martinican poet returns to Mother Africa, to a collective experience of colonized Black people, the Brazilian artist seeks her ancestry as one who unravels a thread, investigating archives, analyzing her territory and, in some way, also arriving at the African continent. Césaire, however, problematizes the notion of nation, whereas Aline focuses on the familial sphere and its ancestral echoes. In these displacements, both produce a writing of memory that brings together the individual and the collective.