Imaginary of mobility in Rakushisha, by Adriana Lisboa: between flow and fixity/Imaginario da mobilidade na obra Rakushisha, de Adriana Lisboa: entre o fluxo e a fixidez

The article aims to analyze the novel Rakushisha, by Brazilian writer Adriana Lisboa, published in 2007. The analytical framework focuses on actions and images of mobility present in the work, in such a way that the path of investigation shows evidence of how actions and images of mobility are often filled with profound existential meaning, culminating with their protagonist characters in situations of inner discovery or "epiphanic insights about the self', as Thompson (2011) puts it. Based on Carl Thompson (2011) himself, and also on Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury (2012) and Tim Cresswell (2006), the article highlights how the discursive construction of an imaginary of mobility takes place in Rakushisha through a negotiation between metaphysical instances of flow and fixity. This negotiation reveals itself in the protagonists' unstable identities, in the construction of a post national discourse that goes beyond essentialism and national stereotypes and, at last, in the reflections on the very act of writing, built in the metaphor of travel, in the ceaseless movement of signs.