ENTRE O IMPERATIVO DA RESISTÊNCIA E A CONSCIÊNCIA DA DERROTA: A LITERATURA BRASILEIRA DURANTE O REGIME MILITAR

Abstract

This article situates Brazilian literature (prose and poetry) within the broader field of the so-called ‘cultural resistance’ to the military regime, which came into force in the country in 1964. In terms of the  social memory that exists in relation to the construction of the identity  of opposition to the military regime, the role played by literature is less  well remembered than that of the theater, popular music and cinema. However, the role of literature in this context should be analyzed in terms of its capacity to consolidate the relationships between reflexive language and historical material, less committed to the demands of the market or large-scale audiences. In this sense, there exists an essential corpus of authors and works that played an important role, both in the reconstruction of subjectivities in the face of the experience of authoritarianism, and also in scrutinizing the new social and political reality imposed by the military regime.