The body and the voice of confinement: witness and experience in prison literature - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.17732

Autor: Aulus Mandagará Martins
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, Vol 35, Iss 3, Pp 193-202 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1983-4675
1983-4683
DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.17732
Popis: Based on the categories of witness and experience, the article examines the prison literature genre. Current research investigates a possible shift of paradigm in recent Brazilian literature produced by prisoners or former prisoners, and tries to analyze the theoretical, discursive and historical conditions on these writings. Their most striking feature is the presence of an enunciating subject called ‘convict’ in contrast to the ‘political prisoner’, the central figure of prison literature stemming from dictatorial contexts.
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