Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: IRANILDO MOTA DA SILVA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : IRANILDO MOTA DA SILVA
DATE: 14/12/2022
TIME: 08:30
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

Literature and dictatorship: a dialogical analysis of the representation of repression and resistance in Carlos Heitor Cony

KEY WORDS:

Dialogism. Heterodiscourse. Repression. Resistance. Carlos Heitor Cony.

PAGES: 90
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
SUMMARY:

Brazil’s present time has been marked by the resurgence and effervescence of social discourses that brought to light worldviews about the military dictatorship: divergent discourses that carry with them either positive or negative images of the “years of lead.” In that period, literature became a great fighting tool used by novelists, chroniclers and poets who began to use their productions to materialize discourses against the military dictatorship and the atrocities committed to those who uttered critical discourses against the president generals. As they present an innovative writing, a dialogue with the production context and a critical (un)masking of the military dictatorship in their discourses, among these productions, the works of the writer Carlos Heitor Cony stand out: Pessach: a travessia, Pilatos, and Quase memória, quase romance, written, respectively, before, during and after AI5, the repressive decree of the military dictatorship. These works are the corpus of this research. In this vein, our object of study focuses on the relationship between the Brazilian military dictatorship and the novel, seen as a literary discourse responsible for reflecting and refracting heterodiscourses impregnated with ideologies. Thus, the main objective of this dissertation is to defend the idea that the discourses of repression and resistance are present in Cony’s works as manifestations of the centripetal and centrifugal forces of language materialized more expressively in the form and content of the novels, more specifically in the voices of the narrators, the characters, and the way in which the novels were orchestrated. It is through the dialogic relations with the context of production and the heterodiscourse that compose the novels that we intend to point out how the discourse of repression and resistance was materialized in the literary pieces. In order to do so, a comparative analysis will be made between the three works, having, as a methodological approach, the voices of the narrators, the discourses of the characters, and the way in which the novels were elaborated. In this way, it will be verified, comparatively, how these subjects, who are responsible for composing the plurivocality of the novel (narrators and characters) present their criticisms to the dictatorship and how this political scenario is refracted. The discussions and analyses will be based mainly on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the Bakhtinian theory and the so-called Bakhtin Circle, especially related to the contributions of Valentim Volochinov and Pavel Medvedev. Reflections on the impacts of the military dictatorship on Brazilian society will be theoretically based on the studies of Pontes (2013; 2018), Arns (1987) and Schwarcz and Starling (2015), who outline the “years of lead” through which the Brazilian society of that period went thought and that were refracted in the novels we analyze. It has been noticed, so far, that the presence of the discourse of repression and resistance clearly composes the discourses of the narrators. However, there is a masking of the critical discourse of resistance in the voice of the narrator in Pilatos, a result of authoritarianism and his discourse of repression, which curtailed the critical discourses of the Brazilian military dictatorship and that also helped to compose the discourses of the narrators.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1000286 - ORISON MARDEN BANDEIRA DE MELO JUNIOR
Externa ao Programa - 1223367 - JULIANE VARGAS WELTER - UFRNExterna à Instituição - ANGELA MARIA RUBEL FANINI - UTFPR
Externa à Instituição - SANDRA MARA MORAES LIMA - UNIFESP