Banca de DEFESA: ANDERSON DA SILVA SOARES

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STUDENT : ANDERSON DA SILVA SOARES
DATE: 15/09/2025
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Meet - Online
TITLE:

SPEECHES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BODY DURING THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN BRAZIL (1968-1979)

KEY WORDS:

Body; Dictatorship; Control; Subjectivity; Torture.

PAGES: 214
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

The aim of this thesis is the bodies’ representations and discourses produced during the years of AI-5 (1968-1979) in the military dictatorship in Brazil. To historicize them, we analyzed originating documents from censorship and repression bodies (mainly those from the DCDP: Public Entertainment Censorship Division), letters from ordinary citizens addressed to the government, memoir records, magazine articles and even bibliographical production about the research period. From document analysis we support our questioning about the context of enunciations and silencing that ended up building imagetic-discursive stereotypes, truths and naturalizations about the bodies in that context. The problem highlighted in this thesis enabled us to understand the body as a privileged locus for historicize the speeches and symbolic elements that supported the relationship between macrosocial and micropolitical issues correlated to the period of military dictatorship in Brazil. The process of historicizing the body unveils the dynamics of power and knowledge that substantiated the discourses and representations of the censorship and the bodies’ repression during dictatorship that radically promoted the “defense of morals and good customs”. The criminalization and stigmatization of certain bodies that are considered for some as “undesirable”, “deviant” and “immoral”, revealed an authoritarian and sanitary pedagogy in relation to bodies, showing that the dictatorial regime was not sustained or imposed only on the basis of military and repressive apparatus. In this challenging process of historicization of the political and symbolic dimension of the use of torture, we point out a deliberate desire to attack and correct rebel bodies and exalt an extreme punitive power. We will analize the relationship between the 'revolutionary morality' of the left wing parties with the bodies and the resistance of artists in the face of the violent process of surveillance, censorship and repression of their productions in times when Institutional Act nº 5 was in force

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