Militância feminina e ditadura: uma experiência de leitura no ensino médio com o corpo interminável, de Claudia Lage.

Abstract

This work started from the problem that there is a secondary visibility, in fictional narratives, of the active participation of militants and their bodily experiences, experienced in the context of the Military Dictatorship. It is considered that women played an active role in student movements, parties, unions and clandestine organizations, breaking with the roles proposed to them by patriarchal culture, but these activities are not highlighted as relevant factors in discussions about this historical period, nor are they included in this perspective of militancy in literary aesthetics. In view of this, the main objective of this research was to analyze, in the novel O corpo interminável, by Claudia Lage, the ways of representing militant women during the dictatorship period in Brazil with second year high school students from the Celso Mariz State Elementary and Middle School, located in a gypsy community in the city of Sousa-PB, using the reception method developed by Bordini and Aguiar (1988). Our study was based on the following questions: a) Can the novel O corpo interminável, by Claudia Lage, lead the student to have a critical and meaningful view of the relationship between women and the Military Dictatorship? b) How are acts of torture of the female body portrayed in this writer's work? c) How are the conflicts of the militant characters configured in this novel? In order to answer these questions and meet the main objective, we set the following specific objectives: a) To describe, based on Anne Rouxel's Autobiography of a Reader (2013), the knowledge of students at the Celso Mariz State Elementary and High School regarding works that characterize the period of the military dictatorship in Brazil. b) To work on the novel O corpo interminável, Cláudia Lage using the Receptive Method in the classroom, thus focusing on both the participation of female guerrillas in the fight against the regime and the violence imposed on gender. c) To reflect on how students understand not only the relationship between women and the dictatorship, but also the traumas caused by Brazilian authoritarianism based on the main characters portrayed in Claudia Lage's narrative. This research is part of a qualitative study, of a critical-interpretative nature, since it is centered both on the subjective positions of the students in relation to the novel studied and on the subjective view of the researcher regarding the object of study. In order to achieve the established objectives, we followed some paths: a) bibliographical study on the researched topic; b) reading intervention with the work O corpo interminável, by Claudia Lage, in the classroom. As a theoretical basis, we relied on the reflections of Colling (1997), Eurídice Figueiredo (2017-2024), Regina Dalcastagnè (1996- 2020), Rosa (2013), Tânia Pellegrini (1996) on Literature, Dictatorship and Female Activism; and the conceptions of Teaching and Reading Formation of: Bordini and Aguiar (1988), Bajour (2012), Lígia Cademartori (2009), Michèle Petit (2008), Dalvi (2021), among others. As a result, we found that the students were able to have a critical and reflective view of the relationship between women and the dictatorship, as well as the leading role of female subjects in the fight against the regime.