A DIALOGUE ABOUT MEMORY EQUIVOCATION

This article aims to discuss the relations between memory and literature in the autobiographical text based on the concept of memory equivocation. Taking dialogue as a way to provoke, I try to answer some questions about the characteristics of what I call memory equivocation, a concept based on the ideas of Amerindian perspectivism and controlled equivocation developed by the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. The argument that I stand for take the autobiographical text as built by an intense process of otherness and difference instead of similarity, and its author as translator of the past, whose the work becomes legible only because of the equivocation.