Testemunho e violência na literatura de cárcere brasileira: Diário de um detento e Memórias de um sobrevivente

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes two narratives of prison experience, published in 2001: Diário de um detento: o livro of Jocenir and Memórias de um sobrevivente, Luiz Alberto Mendes. The analysis of these two works is based on how this subject incarcerated searches the legitimacy of his speech, since this is delegitimized both the experience itself, that is, the content of the story, as reported by the speech that, due to the fact that the author does not belong to legitimate means of literate culture. Thus, this prisoner appropriates resources of literacy to not only tell your story, but with a hard-hitting reporting portray the reality of the prison, taking the position of an observer from prison.