A narradora de Caderno Afegão: uma jornalista na borda do mundo

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The proposal of this article is to investigate, through the analysis of the narrator's voice in Caderno Afegão, the interchange between personal diary and reporting, as well as the adherence between textual and authorial identities, manifested from gender issues, which the clash between different cultures brings forth. Our hypothesis is that the narrator's subjectivity is constructed, textually, from the cultural encounters she experiences. Thus, gradually, the distant gaze of a foreign reporter gives way to a feminine perspective, of solidarity with Afghan women. The examination of the work brings at least two important contributions to the study of journalistic narrative: first, it allows understanding fluctuations between genres of non-fiction and hybridizations, present in contemporary Portuguese-language journalism; second, it problematizes, in the field of narratology, the relationships between the empirical author and the narrator in factual accounts.