ORALITY AND ANCESTRALITY IN FINISTERRE, BY NÉLIDA PIÑON

Abstract

This article about the short story Finisterre, from the book o Calor das Graças, 1980, written by Nélida Piñon , aims to analyze the fictional text to show the marks of orality in writing, the narrative force and the transmission of Galician ancestral knowledge, therefore I make use of the concepts “discourse of ancestry” and “discursive ego-specularity”. The concept of ancestry interests me as a discourse, an enunciation about the textualities of tradition. By “discursive ego-specularity” applied to literature, I mean the reading of a literary work that reflexively connects the writer, the text and the reader. In addition to these references, I also make use of the three-dimensional interpretative model of the text – social practice/text/discursive practice – proposed by Norman Fairclough in his Critical Discourse Analysis, as well as the two types of narrators treated by Walter Benjamin, the one who narrates the journeys and what tells the stories of the place. I am also anchored in the concept and importance of the voice from the studies of Paul Zumthor.