O QUE É LITERATURA DE TESTEMUNHO (E CONSIDERAÇÕES EM TORNO DE GRACILIANO RAMOS, ALEX POLARI E ANDRÉ DU RAP)

Wilberth Salgueiro

WHAT IS “WITNESS LITERATURE”? REFLECTIONS ON GRACILIANO RAMOS, ALEX POLARI AND ANDRÉ DU RAP

Authors

Wilberth Salgueiro UFES - CNPq

Keywords:

Witness Literature, Graciliano Ramos, Alex Polari, André du Rap

Abstract

At first, this text’s intention is to bring to light some common considerations related to the aspects of witness and witnessing; based on the ideas of Giorgio Agamben (2008) on “witness” and of Paul Ricoeur (2007) on “witnessing”. Forthwith, the analysis points traits and characteristics that may help on identifying a text as “Witness Literature”, illustrating each of its traits. Finally, this work studies three prison testimony – Memórias do cárcere (1953) by Graciliano Ramos; Camarim de prisioneiro (1980) by Alex Polari; and Sobrevivente André du Rap (do Massacre do Carandiru) (2002) by André du Rap –, considering above all other things the conception of language and writing used in expression. As a conclusion, this article uses thoughts by Márcio Seligmann-Silva (2009) on Grande sertão: veredas, by Guimarães Rosa, concluding that both the witnessing and fiction crisscross establishing connections and ruptures; nevertheless, they do not disappear or even nullify each other, being a task for the reader to deal with this thin boundary.

Author Biography

Wilberth Salgueiro, UFES - CNPq

Professor associado IV da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), onde atua nos cursos de Letras. Pesquisador bolsista CNPq 2, desde 2007. Últimas publicações: Lira à brasileira: erótica, poética, política. Vitória: Edufes, 2007. Bravos companheiros e fantasmas 4: estudos críticos sobre o autor capixaba (org.). Vitória: Edufes, 2011. O testemunho na literatura: representações de genocídios, ditaduras e outras violências (Org.). Vitória: Edufes, 2011. “O poema refém da teoria: exercícios críticos em torno de Paulo Leminski”. Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada. Vol. 16, p. 119- 143, 2011. “Poesia, segredo e juízo em Cinco ciclos e meio século (2009), de Glauco Mattoso”. Texto Poético, v. 11, p. 1-9, 2011.

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2012-12-19

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Salgueiro, W. (2012). WHAT IS “WITNESS LITERATURE”? REFLECTIONS ON GRACILIANO RAMOS, ALEX POLARI AND ANDRÉ DU RAP. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 19(31). Retrieved from https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/22610

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Vol. 19 No. 31 (2012): Literature and History

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