abstract
This article analyzes the conflicts arising from spatial and cultural mobility in the novel O cisne e o aviador, by Heliete Vaitsman. Considering that the novels’ characters are migrants, mostly Jews who emigrated to Brazil to escape Nazism, the article interrogates the relations immigrants establish with space, the inter-subjective modalities derived from the dialectical relationship between memory and forgetting, and the reconfiguration of a sense of belonging.
Keywords:
migration; cultural identity; memory; oblivion