“Cassandra Rios ainda resiste”: vida literária, censura, memória e luta por reconhecimento

Abstract

This doctoral thesis in progress seeks to study the trajectory of Cassandra Rios from São Paulo from her first writings until her death in 2002. I sought to analyze an artistic trajectory of Rios in its various facets, relating to the census flows that have permeated the life of this story since the release of his first book. I intend with such a study to expose questions related to the moral censorship that permeated the Brazilian literary production, mainly feminine, since before the Dictatorship Civil-Military and was strengthened by this, having a specific legal basis through Decree-Law 1,077 / 1970. In addition to the author's own trajectory, an analysis is made of the subsequent processes through which a search for reparation of her image was made after her death, whether in the cultural sphere, with the production of a documentary, or in the legal / institutional context, with the reporting by the Human Rights Commission of Ordem dos Advogados (OAB) from São Paulo and the National Commission for Truth (CNV) of the Ministry of Justice. In such a study I have as basis the lawsuits filed against Rios at the state and federal levels, memorial books written by Rios and others involved in his career, matters and interviews in newspapers and magazines with her and with people close to her, as well as interviews with those who seek reparation of the image and the recognition of Rios as persecuted policy of the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship based on moral issues. I use as analytical categories and theoretical framework mobilized to analyze this empirical material: Trajectory (BOURDIEU, 1996a; KOFES, 1994, 2001), Oblivion (BOSI, 2012; HALBWACHS, 2006), Moral censorship (MARCELINO, 2011; REIMÃO, 2011; SILVA , 2010), Struggle for Recognition (HONNETH, 2003) and Transitional Justice (QUINALHA, 2012; REÁTEGUI, 2011). With this thesis we can verify and analyze the systematic persecution of Rios' name regarding censorship, before and during military dictatorship and even in the period of political opening. The analysis of the sources allowed us to understand the issue of moral discourse about the central theme of Rios' works - lesbianism.