Além das jaulas: análise do silêncio em Tereza Batista Cansada de Guerra

Abstract

The present work analyzes the novel Tereza Batista Cansada de Guerra (1972), by Jorge Amado, adopting silence as the object of analysis, in order to contribute to studies about Brazilian literature, as well as to investigations about the work and the author. . In this way, we intend to analyze the work in dialogue with society, seeking to understand silence as violence in the text. For analysis, the work adopts as a theoretical contribution the studies of Dinouart (2001), Orlandi (2007), Barthes (2003), Holanda (1992) and Solnit (2017). To work on the dialogical relationship between literature and society, we took Candido's method (1965) as a basis. Thus, to analyze the novel we adopted the context as a method for analyzing the text, and vice versa, based on the assumption of integration between both, within a qualitative and bibliographic methodology, so that literature is understood as a reality not just of language, but also social. From the analysis, a connection was observed between silence and the maintenance of power, in such a way that the regime of silence is maintained in order to maintain dominance over certain bodies, for which the right to political and social voice is not considered. as inherent by the society in question.