A Vindication of the Urban Space in And if I were a hooker, by Amara Moira

Abstract

We take the assumption that the autobiographical report And if I were a hooker, by Amara Moira, supports the notion that the structure of society plays out as spatiality in constant process of oppression and resistance as our starting point for analysis. Through politically engaged literary action, Amara Moira weaves autobiographical reports that refer to historically segregated collectivities, claiming literary and social legitimacy.  We believe that making notable representations of the urban present in writing of the self allows us to organize intimate representations of the metropolis, granting the understanding, under a socially demarcated perspective, the symbolic and cultural constitution of spaces. The metropolis, thus, becomes effective as a field that shows poignant social contradictions, in such a way that its analysis and reflection propose remarkable social configurations. Following this perspective, when establishing relations between biographical space and urban space, contrasting perspectives are highlighted, because we understand the literary phenomenon in its social and political implications, proposing to focus on Amara Moira’s work as an element that, in defending the democratization of spaces, privileges dialogue with sexually dissident alterities.