Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LUIZ EDUARDO MORAIS TARGINO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LUIZ EDUARDO MORAIS TARGINO
DATE: 15/10/2025
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

 

In The Rabbit's Hole: Memory and Writing of the Trauma in Claudia Lage's O Corpo Interminável

KEY WORDS:

memory; trauma; military dictatorship; testimonial writing; Claudia Lage.

PAGES: 73
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates how the novel O corpo interminável (2019), by Claudia Lage, articulates memory, trauma, and testimonial writing within the context of the Brazilian military dictatorship, highlighting the historical erasure of female political prisoners and their strategies of resistance. The main objective is to understand how traumatic accounts and characters’ memories reveal the silencing of the subject under repression. Specifically, the study aims to map the chapters in which women assume the narrative voice, examine the aesthetic resources that represent forgetting and erasure, articulate memory and dominant discourse, and analyze narrative fragmentation as an expression of trauma. The research adopts a qualitative and bibliographic approach, grounded in authors such as Candido (2000), Bosi (2003), Pollak (1989), Halbwachs (2013), Ginzburg (2008), Seligmann-Silva (2003), and Linda Hutcheon (1991), among others, employing the inductive method for the analysis of literary fragments. Partial results indicate that the novel develops an underground collective memory that challenges official historiography while exposing the impossibility of a totalizing representation of trauma. The female narrative voices, marked by fragmentation, silences, and intertextuality, inscribe historical gaps into literature and reaffirm resistance against institutionalized oblivion. Thus, O corpo interminável functions as a space of symbolic and critical resistance, in which literature rescues silenced subjects, confronts hegemonic discourses, and offers new ways of understanding Brazilian cultural and political memory. This analysis therefore contributes to the field of Comparative Literature by showing how testimonial writing can mediate the dialogue between aesthetics and ethics, past and present, literature and society.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2312500 - MAURO DUNDER
Interno - 1190500 - ANDRE TESSARO PELINSER
Interna - 1223367 - JULIANE VARGAS WELTER