The Tower of glass : reflections and refractions of violence in Brazil

Author(s)

Natália Pires Tiso de Melo

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2013-00-00

Examining board members

Ana Carolina Arruda de Toledo Murgel; Susel Oliveira da Rosa

• Advisor: Márcio Orlando Seligmann Silva

Abstract

This research analyzes the representations of violence that permeates fiction The Tower of Glass, by Ivan Angelo, a book plural in its themes and formats. Paying attention to the types of violence represented and how they are constructed literary, the textual analysis takes place in a centrifugal motion: from the significant of the fiction to its interrelation with other speeches that touch the violence, for example literature, philosophy, historiography and journalism. The Tower of Glass, a verisimilar fiction and with historicist content, show us, on the one hand, representations of multiple violence, bodily or not, that spread throughout society. On the other, through the symbol of the Tower of Glass, makes possible to question the violence of the state and, especially, surveillance, control and the powers exercised laterally in society, breaking, then, with the dichotomous views about violence (repression / revolutionary) and power (dominant / dominated). The Glass House permits finally (re) thinking the meanings of violence (and power) in late 1970, signaling some continuity between those years and today (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/03729-3 - A Casa de Vidro: reflections and refractions of violence in Brazil.
• Grantee: Natália Pires Tiso de Melo
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master