http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23842 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:22:39 GMT 2026-06-19T15:22:39Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86549 Título: Lázaros reclusos: “lepra”, cotidiano e sociabilidades na Colônia Antônio Diogo (1950-1980) Autor(es): Furtado, Danielly dos Santos Abstract: The Antônio Diogo Colony was built in 1928 in the city of Redenção with the aim of controlling the endemic "leprosy" disease in the state of Ceará. Over the years, the institution received men and women afflicted with leprosy who were involuntarily interned and who had to reinvent their lives in the face of physical and institutional limitations, despite the suffering caused by the disease and its treatment. This research analyzes letters produced by the inmates between 1950 and 1980, which were found in an archive previously classified as strictly "administrative." These correspondences reveal a little-explored dimension of the leprosarium experience, offering privileged access to the daily lives of the inmates, their social networks, affective bonds, and the power tensions that permeated the context of compulsory internment. This documentation therefore constitutes the guiding thread of the present research: through the voices of the patients themselves, through their self-writing, I problematize how the isolationist policy reshaped sociabilities, identities, and memories in a space designed for separation, but which ended up generating unique forms of coexistence. Tipo: Dissertação Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86549 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 http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/83100 Título: Corpos escaveirados: imagens de fome e miséria da Seca do Ceará (1877-1879 Autor(es): Silva, Jeferson de Castro Tipo: Dissertação Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/83100 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z