Entre o lembrar e o esquecer: a ditadura civil-militar brasileira a partir da trilogia da tortura de Heloneida Studart

Abstract

This Thesis aims to analyze the novels O Pardal é um Pássaro Azul, O Estandarte da Agonia and O Torturador em Romaria, which make up the so-called “Torture Trilogy” by Heloneida Studart. Therefore, articulating literature and historiography, it is sought to discuss how the author reflects on aspects related to the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, by proposing an analysis of the period from the intersection of the accounts of three protagonists who appear in her novels: Marina (the militant), Açucena (the family of the disappeared politician) and Carmélio (the torturer). The analysis starts from the hypothesis that the novels of the “Trilogy” allow a broader understanding of the idea of repression during the dictatorship beyond that practiced only by the State. Having that said, the objective is to understand how violence and authoritarianism are pointed out by Heloneida as characteristics belonging to Brazilian society, which would be expressed not only in the authoritarian state practices instituted from the 1964 coup, but also through the family environment, the religious devotion environment and through the patriarchalsexist context of the time in which the novels take place.