In this doctoral thesis, plead one ethnographic analysis considering them as autobiographical textual productions that, by registering a real event make use of literary devices and subjectivity of their authors. To identify a sense of ethnography as a producer of knowledge, aim to articulate the theoretical assumptions of the anthropological classic literature with ethnographic texts originated in the postmodern context. I suggest reading ethnographies as a literary possibility which entails a certain being in the author s world, bringing up prospects concerning the notion of individual, such as the construction of authorship and of itself. For this approach, I try to weave similarities between contemporary ethnographies, testimonies and novels.