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

  • Aulus Mandagará Martins Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Keywords: prison literature, witness, experience

Abstract

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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Author Biography

Aulus Mandagará Martins, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Doutor em Letras. Professor de Literatura do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Published
2013-04-08
How to Cite
Martins, A. M. (2013). <b>The body and the voice of confinement: witness and experience in prison literature</b&gt; - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.17732. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 35(3), 193-202. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.17732
Section
Literature

 

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