Narrating the Socially Forgotten. Resistance Romance in the Era of State Terror in Brazil

Abstract

This essay analyzes, having as theoretical parameter aesthetic analysis of Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin's conception of history, as the novel produced in the period of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985) was negatively affected by it. At the same time, seeks to identify and analyze the ways in which the novel responded to the state terror, through the fight by narrating the historical matter repressed prohibited, forbidden: thus highlights how he, in contrast to the official version of events, narrated socially forgotten in order to reconstruct the atrocities and massacres that occurred in the period.