THE STORYTELLER AND THE DICTATORSHIP’S UNBURIED DEAD IN O CORPO INTERMINÁVEL (2019), BY CLÁUDIA LAGE
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https://doi.org/10.18223/hiscult.v14i2.5021Abstract
This article aims to analyze Cláudia Lage's novel O Corpo Interminável (2019), examining its symbolic representation of individual and collective traumas produced by the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (1964-1985), which persist to this day. Drawing on theoretical frameworks by Walter Benjamin, Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, and Márcio Seligmann-Silva, fiction is positioned as part of a process of collective mourning and memory-making. The novel is analyzed alongside the author's interviews and testimonies from victims' families, highlighting key themes such as the societal impact of political disappearances, the consequences of enforced silence, and present-day tensions stemming from historical trauma, all articulated through the protagonist's narration.
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