Coincidências da censura - figuras de linguagem e subentendidos nas obras teatrais do arquivo de Miroel Silveira

Author(s)

Andrea Limberto Leite

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
• Defense date: 2011-05-04

Examining board members

Mayra Rodrigues Gomes; Waldir Beividas; Maria Cristina Castilho Costa; Ferdinando Crepalde Martins; Maria Helena Vicente Werneck

• Advisor: Mayra Rodrigues Gomes

Abstract

Considering the theater plays subject to prior censorship present in the Miroel Silveira Files, we intend to investigate the ones released with cuts. Our analysis, trying to capture the censoring logic as an act of interdiction, focuses on censored text excerpts in which figures of speech were employed. Based on French Discourse Analysis Theories mainly in the works of Oswald Ducrot and the studies of rhetorical figures with the New Rethoric, we understand figures of speech as producers of discursive effects, magnifying presuppositions and implicatures. Our hypothesis is that the censorship interfered with crucial passages of the text, where sense was being made based on literary style resources, urging the public to adhere. In such process, the cuts reveal to us about the most commonly prohibited contents and, along with them, about the socially established conceptions present in the plays selected for analysis. We have focused on the plays which censorship certificate dated from the 50s or the 60s, trying to set the wider possible range regarding authorship of the pieces and regarding the themes of the censored excerpts. The textual architecture presented by the figures of speech was related to those of the implied contents. At the same time that we understood the exercise of censorship emerging from a triple coincidence of the same contents as being: figurative, implicated and censored. (AU)