Università Roma Tre

The course aims to show students the literary reworking of political violence in Brazil during the years of military dictatorship (1964-1985), as presented in some recent novels. In a perspective that places Brazilian authoritarianism within a broader Latin American framework, literary texts will be analyzed through tools and methodologies related to Trauma Studies and testimonial literature.
In a first phase, the general concepts will be presented and the historical context reconstructed. Subsequently, the novels in the program will be analyzed.

Bernardo Kucinski, K. Relato de uma busca, São Paulo, Cosac Naify, 2014 (2011) [tr.it. K o la figlia desaparecida, Firenze, Giuntina, 2016]

G. Agamben, Quel che resta di Auschwitz. L’archivio e il testimone, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1998.
Janaína de Almeida Teles, Os familiares de mortos e desaparecidos políticos e a luta por “verdade e justiça” no Brasil, in Edson Teles – Vladimir Safatle (orgs), O que resta da ditadura. A exceção brasileira, São Paulo, Boitempo, 2010 pp. 299-318