Tempo revisto, tempo reescrito: as metaficções historiográficas / Revised Time, Rewritten Time: Historiographic Metafictions

Abstract

This article is a bibliographic research with a qualitative bias on historiographical metafiction and metabiography in the last two decades of the 20th century, aiming to explain how these narratives arose as responses of art and culture to complex phenomena, determined by a crisis of the modernist regime of historicity that meets resonance also in the postmodernist conceptions that resume discussions about the contradictions of modernism itself and recover the debate about the dichotomy between high arts and mass culture. The postmodernist conjuncture also appears as a space in which debates on issues that emerge from a society strongly marked by global capitalism and communication technologies are established and, producing an information overload, generate the need to organize and apprehend the past, from where the speeches about memory and all interpretations of time arise. This appeal to re-reading ends up producing a poetics of [re]creation that feeds on the cultural residues of the past. As theoretical backbones of the proposed analyses of metafiction, Linda Hutcheon’s work about postmodernist poetics in conjunction with Walter Moser’s concept of historiography is privileged, as well as with the transformations in the historiographic thought promoted by Les Annales and developed by microhistory.