A escritura como monumentum

Abstract

Death occupies a crucial place in human life. Its perspective is historic and varies according to time, culture and region where the society is established and other aspects. From the prism of the event, proposed by Michel Foucault, death is entwined with basic characteristics of civilization, such as religion, sexuality and morality. Although contemporary death is reported and exposed in the media, when it comes to personal experience, it appears on the margins of the daily practices of ordinary people, as well as the rituals that involve it. From this approach, this thesis analyzes the experience of mourning in Roland Barthes, using Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography and Mourning Diary as the main corpus. Making use of the concepts developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari on power, territory, deterritorialization and reterritorialization; and the concepts related to writing, according to Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes himself, our hypothesis points to the production of these two works as a posture of resistance and an attempt at reterritorialization through writing.