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| Author(s): |
Yuri Andrei Batista Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2023-10-09 |
| Examining board members: |
Chantal Claudel;
Margaret Bento;
Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo;
Patricia von Münchow;
André Luiz Mitidieri Pereira
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| Advisor: | Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo |
| Abstract | |
The present thesis compares autobiographies of testimony that represent experiences of historical trauma in Brazilian and Austrian cultures. We consider the discursive genre autobiography of testimony as an invariable element of comparison that allows the approximation of the respective discursive cultures (von Münchow, 2021). Our central aim is to describe how the autobiographical discourse of testimony represents historical trauma and interrelates individual, familial, and collective dimensions in its discursive constitution. Based on the problematic memory work on the events of the civil military dictatorship (Teles and Quinalha, 2020) and World War II (Wodak et al, 1990), we observe how the political-social frameworks of the respective cultures are constituted by the extremist discourses that characterized the context of repression, authoritarianism, and violence. We note, therefore, an expressive recurrence of life writing that transits between traditional and more hybrid forms, following the ethical-moral function that constitutes literary discourse. Our methodology is based on the relation between dialogical discourse theory (Brait, 2006) and contrastive discourse analysis (von Münchow, 2021). We then compare the discourse constructions of the following autobiographies : in the Brazilian subcorpus, Ainda estou aqui (2014), Volto semana que vem (2014) and Em nome dos pais (2017), by authors Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Maria Pilla and Matheus Leitão; and in the Austrian subcorpus, Die Welt von Gestern (1942) and weiter leben (1992), by authors Stefan Zweig and Ruth Klüger. The analyses focus on three levels: i) the chronotopes, ii) the interspersed genres, and iii) the transmission of the other\'s discourse. Autobiographical testimony in the Brazilian subcorpus is constituted by a variety of genres and external points of view that accentuate the factual dimension of the narrative and perform a denunciatory function, given the conditions of the memory phase in which the works are produced. The testimony in the Austrian subcorpus, coming from a more consolidated testimonial-autobiographical tradition, make reference to the facts from the individual perspective, using external genres and discourses in order to only illustrate the dominant analytical position of the authors\' discourse. While the Brazilian subcorpus seeks a restitution of the primary context in which the facts occurred, the Austrian subcorpus reflects the experiences lived in the context in which the narrative is produced. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/02188-3 - The autobiography in discursive contrasts: memories, speeches and dialogues |
| Grantee: | Yuri Andrei Batista Santos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |