Memórias familiares da ditadura brasileira em ainda estou aqui, de Marcelo Rubens Paiva

Abstract

The present research has as object of study the testimonial work of Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Ainda estou aqui (2015), a narrative that recounts the horrors lived in the Brazilian military dictatorship, expressed, mainly, by the representations of the torture and the political disappearance. Through the familiar reminiscences, the narrator seeks to reconstitute his father's death, from prison, to torture and his disappearance. In this context, we try to understand how the representations of the trauma, mainly of the torture and the political disappearance, shape the testimony of the narrator. It is assumed that the narrator, in the face of experiences of barbarism, is fragmented, consequently, literature and language change in the same proportionality in the attempt to tell the lived. As a result of the above, we try to understand the conjuncture of the facts reported, relying on theories of memory, testimony and trauma. Therefore, it is perceived that the testimonial narrative in Brazil, in relation to the Latin American context, gains its own characteristics: it allows an advertisement on the facts; Gives voice to oppressed minorities by violence, especially the families of the victims; Contests the "official version" about the period; Besides seeing in the literature a possibility of sharing the lived trauma, instituting a necessity of reenactment of the past through writing.