Banca de DEFESA: VANUSIA AMORIM PEREIRA DOS SANTOS

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STUDENT : VANUSIA AMORIM PEREIRA DOS SANTOS
DATE: 19/06/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

The drawers were never empty: civil-military dictatorship, writing, and resistance in the work of Antônio Torres

KEY WORDS:

KEYWORDS: Antônio Torres; Civil-Military Dictatorship; Brazilian literature; Institutional Violence; Censorship.

PAGES: 125
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
SUMMARY:

Antônio Torres debuted as a fiction writer in 1972, when Decree 1077/70 was already in force, a law that specifically formalized and systematized prior censorship of books and magazines and proved the resurgence of institutional violence imposed by the generals. The writer produced and released three novels in the leaden years of the civil-military dictatorship, A dog howling at the moon (1972), Os men with round feet (1973), and Essa terra (1976), being considered a revelation author in his debut year and best seller with the third work. Despite different themes, the books had in common plots with critical passages alluding to the country's political situation, including representations of crimes committed by the forces of the law, which points to consistent literary production of resistance in dark times. Despite this, the works were not censored, which allowed the circulation of a different record of the official history propagated by the military government and the white plate press, a fact that distinguishes the novelist's work as active and contrary to the violence imposed by the military of 64 and, above all, archival literature of the dictatorship. Considering the context in which they were written and released, this thesis analyzes the three novels, pointing out the marks of repression in everyday life and demonstrating the configurations carried out by the writer to record the artistic confrontation with authoritarianism and oppression. We aim to identify the writing strategies used by Antônio Torres to produce a fiction of resistance and opposition to official history and discourse and to highlight the laborious work of the fictionist with the word so as not to mischaracterize or hurt literary art. We present and discuss the book censorship scenario; we place Torres's perennial and singular production in the context of the explicit suffocation of culture; we study the novels, specifically the fragments alluding to the violence practiced by the agents of repression and we point out the writing strategies undertaken by the novelist to configure fact in fiction and escape censorship. As a theoretical basis, we use ideas from experts in the field such as Chauí (1987), Pellegrini (1992), Dalcastagne (1996), Bosi (2002), Gaspari (2002), Ginzburg (2010), Reimão (2014), Reis, Ridenti and Sá Motta (2014), Figueiredo (2017), Schwarcz (2019), Seligmann-Silva (2020) and others, as well as official documents and newspapers and magazines of the time. After the observations of the books, it was possible to identify allusions to the modus operandi of the political police and representations of the violence guaranteed by the military regime and its supporters and to point out some strategies and novel resources explored by the writer, which allow us to affirm that, revealing a sophisticated work with the In words, the novels studied propose reflections, prove possibilities of representation of the historical fact through the literary and illuminate the importance of literature as an instrument of symbolic resistance against authoritarianism and its various forms of oppression.

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Externo(a) à Instituição - MARCELO FERRAZ DE PAULA - UFG
Externo(a) à Instituição - TAZIO ZAMBI DE ALBUQUERQUE - IFAL