http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23841 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:53:18 GMT 2026-04-13T19:53:18Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84471 Título: Um passado insepulto nas disputas do presente: políticas de memória sobre a Ditadura Civil-militar brasileira (1995-2011) Autor(es): Brito, Tasso Araújo de Abstract: This thesis examines how successive Brazilian federal governments, between 1995 and 2011, engaged with the legacy of human rights violations committed during the Civil- Military Dictatorship (1964–1985). The analysis begins with the enactment of Law 9.140/95, which officially recognized those who were victims of political disappearance as deceased, and extends to the establishment of the National Truth Commission in 2012, which elevated the debate on the memory of the authoritarian regime to a new level. Situated within the field of Contemporary History, the research explores the specificities of Transitional Justice in Brazil, which primarily focused on financial reparations for victims' families while sidelining judicial accountability for repression agents.The study discusses how the Amnesty Law (1979) became an unavoidable framework for state initiatives by preventing criminal and punitive measures for crimes against humanity. The thesis also examines the tensions surrounding the formulation and implementation of these memory policies, including resistance from the Armed Forces, pressure from activists and families for crime investigations and access to secret archives, and demands from conservative sectors seeking equal treatment for deceased military personnel and executed dissidents. Additionally, the strategies of the Workers' Party governments (from 2003 onward) to deepen public debate are evaluated, with emphasis on the Caravanas da Anistia (Amnesty Caravans) and cultural projects promoted by the Amnesty Commission. The conclusion highlights that, despite undeniable progress—such as the state's acknowledgment of responsibility for grave violations and the expansion of the right to memory—the adopted justice model retained significant gaps. The absence of criminal punishment and persistent obstacles to investigations reinforced a form of negotiated forgetting, resulting in an "unfinished transition" that keeps the past alive in political disputes. Thus, the "unburied past" remains a decisive factor in understanding Brazil's democratic crises, demonstrating that conflicts over memory and reparations remain unresolved. Tipo: Tese Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84471 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84349 Título: “Desenterrar ossadas da poeira dos tempos”: sentidos e usos do passado escrito na obra de Airton Maranhão Autor(es): Mendes, Ruan Carlos Abstract: This research aims to analyze the literary writing of Airton Maranhão (1950 – 2015) as a constructor of memories for those and that which is not (in the author's own conception) properly remembered, constituting itself as a writing that formulates meanings for the written past and for the various spatialities that were narrated, thus being a fictional art that desires to be able to "give time to space," since Maranhão's literary work (poems, novels, and chronicles) was dedicated to the city of Russas - CE and its people (living and dead). This study also analyzes Maranhão's relationships (possible tensions or encounters) within the "artistic field," which he helped build and was a part of, and his affiliation with and involvement in memory institutions that brought together intellectuals and artists in the city. It discusses the relationships between fiction, memory, temporality, and spatiality, as well as analyzing how an author is formed within a specific "field." We understand that Maranhão's writing remained "imprisoned" and "exercised" a particular way of "seeing and saying" about "Northeastern culture," or so-called "popular culture." We investigate the uses that Maranhão made, through literature, of the "fantastic/magical" and the folkloric to construct memories for a space. We analyzed why a space, or "reality," needed to be written in this way to be expressed. More than a job, it's an inalienable "mission" for those who are said to be (and also perceive themselves) as bearing the duty of not letting the "dust of the past" cover everything with its cloak of oblivion. In his literary writing, Maranhão primarily worked with absences, absent figures who became present in his narratives and took on the contours of the past. From this study, we understand how this writer constructed new “writing tombs” for the dead who do not want to return (1999), but whose absences need to be inscribed in the time of the living. We investigated how Maranhão's writing has operated "cuts" in time and how it (re)connected them in the literary representation of a space and time of saudade (a feeling of longing or nostalgia). The methodology is based on the analysis of the literary work of the aforementioned writer, but not an analysis with the intention of qualifying the work literarily, but rather to bring literature into thought alongside history, to reflect on how a writer, in "speaking" of the world, is also an "investigator," since we understand literature as a "form of knowledge." The research results indicate that in Maranhão's work, which sought to temporalize his hometown, time and space cannot be thought of as separate from each other, and that between history and literature there is a "porous boundary." Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84349 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/83750 Título: Rompendo o silêncio público: a formação histórica dos atingidos pelo Açude Castanhão (Ceará, 1985-2002) Autor(es): Maia, Evanilson Fernandes Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the process of organization and formation of the people affected by the Castanhão Dam, in Ceará, between 1985 and 2002, emphasizing their constitution as a collective political subject and the rupture of the public silence that initially rendered them invisible. The research seeks to understand how historically marginalized populations—small farmers, vazanteiros (floodplain cultivators), day laborers, fishers, tenants, and landless peasants—especially women, who played a central role in community organization, developed instruments of struggle and built a common identity as “dam-affected people,” based on the experience of resistance against a state and corporate project that disregarded their rights. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative approach, combining documentary analysis, bibliographic research, and interviews with local leaders. It examined minutes and records of the Jaguaribara Residents’ Association, documents of the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB), issues of the newsletter Castanhão e o Povo, reports and records of the Multiparticipatory Group, and press articles, confronted with oral testimonies and collective memories. The theoretical framework is grounded in E. P. Thompson, James Scott, Ranajit Guha, Frederico de Castro Neves, and Ecléa Bosi, articulating concepts of class, identity, memory, and subaltern resistance. The results demonstrate that resistance was decisive in challenging the hegemonic project. The affected communities broke institutional silence through mobilizations, newsletters, marches, occupations, and negotiations, in which the presence and leadership of women were fundamental to give coherence to the struggles and to secure the right to rural resettlement for hundreds of families, despite strong state pressure to prioritize urban resettlement and relocation to the new city of Jaguaribara. This dispute revealed the central contradiction between two models of displacement: on the one hand, the urban resettlement, planned to concentrate the population in a space defined by the State; on the other, the rural resettlement, the result of organized struggle, which demanded land, agricultural production, and the continuity of community ties. In this confrontation, the affected communities asserted their political agency and challenged the modernizing discourse that justified the dam in the name of “progress.” The study shows that their public emergence was not limited to denouncing rights violations but consolidated insurgent practices and collective knowledge that redefined territory, social memory, and political struggle in the Jaguaribe Valley. It concludes that, by achieving rural resettlement, denouncing the inequalities imposed by urban resettlement, and highlighting women’s protagonism, the affected communities reconfigured their condition of subalternity, inscribing themselves as historical subjects and protagonists of their own history Tipo: Dissertação Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/83750 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/83213 Título: A louca autofágica: a invenção de si na escrita de Maura Lopes Cançado em hospício é Deus - diário I (1965) Autor(es): Augusto, Carolina de Fátima Linhares Abstract: This study aims to analyze Maura Lopes Cançado’s diary, Hospício é Deus: diário I (1968), written during her confinement at the Gustavo Riedel asylum (Rio de Janeiro), as a literary movement of self-invention through the practices of self-writing. Drawing on Philippe Lejeune’s work on autobiography and the diary, as well as Mikhail Bakhtin’s reflections on speech genres, this research investigates how the author employs this intimate writing form to fictionalize herself as a “mad” writer. By choosing the diary as her discursive form, Maura also adopts the foundational characteristics of the genre—those that shape its structure and enable it to convey a particular kind of enunciation—chief among them, sincerity. The hypothesis is that this fictional exercise stems from a desire to invent herself as a great writer, using the diary and madness as a means of affiliating herself with authors she explicitly mentions in her intimate writing, such as Dostoevsky, Sartre, and Clarice Lispector. From this starting point, Maura’s writing may be understood as a deliberate literary construction: she selects, edits, narrates, and publishes, navigating the inherent fissures of the genre and playing the “game of sincerity,” thus crafting a credible character. The research connects this inventive process to its critical reception following the publication of the diary, considering that Maura had already published in Jornal do Brasil and was connected to writers such as Reynaldo Jardim, Assis Brasil, and Ferreira Gullar. Her diary was read and, apparently, well received by the literary critics of Rio de Janeiro. Analyzing this reception is crucial to understanding how her fictional endeavor was interpreted. In this sense, and once again drawing on Bakhtin’s theoretical contributions, the diary is conceived as a space in which time takes form—becoming part of its movement and integrating itself into the narrative as a mode of perceiving the surrounding world. The research thus seeks to investigate the diary as the embodiment of “madness-time,” a mode of experiencing the passage of time within the asylum. Tipo: Dissertação Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/83213 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z