Vozes aprisionadas: mulheres e sistema prisional nos romances-reportagens de Nana Queiroz e Drauzio Varella

Abstract

The two works chosen as corpus of this thesis deal with the experience of its authors within the prison space: Prisoners approach the experience of volunteering of Drauzio Varella in a women's prison, while Prisoners who menstruate is the result of a four-year investigation by Nana Queiroz about incarcerated women. Thus, the main objective is to identify how the elements of the narrative are organized in order to contribute to the creation of representations of the prison system and of the women who inhabit it and possibly provide reflections to the reader, based on four categories: author, space, character and violence. Moreover, it is intended to evaluate how the author's instance organizes the two analyzed reports and testifies about the lived experience; how space influences the behavior and (dis)construction of incarcerated women; how the elaboration of figures living in prison stems from the fixation of the inmates; and how the violence that permeates the construction of the characters influences the creation of an image of prisoners and the Brazilian prison system. The methodology adopted for the construction of the study is inductive, since it is part of private histories to build a general image of incarcerated women and brazilian prisons themselves today. As a theoretical basis for the analysis undertaken here, authors such as Michel Foucault, Jaime Ginzburg, OzirBorges Filho, Rildo Cosson, Antonio Candido and Bath Brait will be mobilized. This thesis seeks to give greater visibility to texts that explore a marginalized and forgotten portion of the Brazilian population, besides giving the reader a new way of looking at these subjects and their otherness. It is also necessary to create a space for reflection on the prison and its particularities.