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| Author(s): |
Caroline Peres Martins
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2021-01-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Daniela Birman;
Francisco Foot Hardman;
Milena Mulatti Magri
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| Advisor: | Daniela Birman |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation analyses comparatively the books of memory Feliz Ano Velho (1982) and Ainda Estou Aqui (2015), both written by Marcelo Rubens Paiva. Although the second one was written thirty years after the fist one, it is speculated that they can be read as a duology about Paiva's individual and family memories, especially with regard to the disappearance of Rubens Paiva. Kidnapped by the Air Force in 1971, his "disappearance"was approached by the son-writer since his literary debut; but as a background, due to the fact that his autobiography, Feliz Ano Velho, focuses on the accident which left him quadriplegic. Even though it cannot be considered an opposition book, when the circumstances of the launch and its first reception are considered; it portraits the helplessness of the indirect victims of the Brazilian Military Regime (1964-1985), therefore it can be placed alongside the other narratives of the period. As it is a difficult trauma to elaborate, his father's disappearance returns to the authors's production, as in the case of Ainda Estou Aqui, published in the following year relative to the conclusion of the works of the National Truth Commission (2012-2014) and the complaint of the Public Prosecutor's Office against five soldiers, involved in the Rubens Paiva case, initiaves that support the memorialist speech. Despite this, they failed in the main point: doing justice (through trial and punishment of the responsibles for the crimes committed) and the localization of the ex-deputy's body. Driven both by the loss of his mother's memory (affected by Alzheimer's disease) and the erasure of the Brazilian society's memory (explicit in nostalgic clamors for a return to the dictatorship, identified in public protests since 2013), Paiva decided to narrate the struggle of his family, especially of his mother, for clarifying the truth about the murder of a congressman. With the forgetfullness of the horrors of the regime, he reminds, the apologism to the dictatorship, the practice of torture and the forced disappearance continue, in our present. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/17192-3 - Memory, trauma and history: memorialist paths in Feliz Ano Velho (1982) and Ainda Estou Aqui (2015), by Marcelo Rubens Paiva |
| Grantee: | Caroline Peres Martins |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |