Fragmentos do corpo e da memória: violência de gênero e ditadura militar nos romances Em Câmara Lenta e O Corpo Interminável

Abstract

The present research aims to study the novels Em câmara lenta (1977), by Renato Tapajós, and O Corpo Interminável (2019), by Cláudia Lage, focusing on the representation of the violence suffered by women in their engagement as political activists during the 1964 Dictatorship in Brazil. The objective of this work is to investigate the narrative strategies used in the books to represent the female characters and the violence perpetrated against them. To this end, we sought to: place the novels among the testimonial narratives produced about that period; identify the violations of rights suffered by these female characters; analyze whether there are peculiarities in their characterization in the novels under study. The research has a bibliographical nature and adopts a qualitative approach based on the dialectical method as proposed by Candido (2014), with the purpose of articulating literature and society from a gender perspective. The analysis is based on Gagnebin (2006), Franco (2003), Seligmann-Silva (2003), Dalcastagnè (1996, 2023), Saffioti (2015) and Jelin (2002), in addition to the critical fortune of the works under study. The results point to substantial differences between the characterization of female characters in the two novels as well as to human rights violation practices, of which the women involved in the armed struggle were victims.