Gender violence, Brazilian military dictatorship and testimony in <i>O corpo interminável</i>, by Cláudia Lage

Authors

  • Fabíola Simão Padilha Trefzger Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-6385.128399

Abstract

Reading of the novel O corpo interminável (2019), by Cláudia Lage, with the aim of discussing gender violence practiced by the Brazilian military dictatorship – thematic axis that structures the work –, considering the type of testimony observed there. By fictionalizing the impact and consequences of the nefarious events in the lives of militant women, the novel would fulfill the role of a “solidarity witness” there, contrary to the policies of oblivion that hinder the attempt to maintain the memory of horror. I will also seek to highlight the way in which Lage’s novel incorporates, in its formal construction, the experience of militants who acted against repression and suffered, as a result, unimaginable and intolerable degrees of gender violence.

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Published

2023-07-17

How to Cite

TREFZGER, Fabíola Simão Padilha. Gender violence, Brazilian military dictatorship and testimony in <i>O corpo interminável</i>, by Cláudia Lage. Cadernos do IL, [S. l.], n. 64, p. 137–153, 2023. DOI: 10.22456/2236-6385.128399. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/cadernosdoil/article/view/128399. Acesso em: 3 sep. 2026.

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Artigos de estudos literários