Memória, testemunho e escrita de presidiário: Luiz Alberto Mendes e a voz do subalterno

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the work Memórias de um sobrevivente, by Luiz Alberto Mendes, in a witness perspective which resulting from an autobiographical writing, produced on a prison experience, it is placed in the marginal literature condition. We will analyze this author belonging to the field of literary creation, it is him the One who is not allowed to have voice in the midst of a crowd of prisoners, that also seek through this ‗one‘ to represent themselves. The making of this work is performed by memory resources and fits in what is usually called the testimony of literature. It is, therefore, literary conducive to intercultural literary studies because preserves in itself, besides the own literary characteristic, a countless of others possible interpretations. It bears elements of memory and the author's own life story, narrating critical moments experienced in his childhood, suffocated by his father, in the adolescence, enclosed in reformatories and his adulthood, in a prison in São Paulo. Therefore, the following issues arise: to what extent the testimony and the positioning of a subject in the prison experience can impact on the literary field? How is the prisoner, through his memories and writing about himself positioned and repositioned in the literary field according to the condition of him as a witness? To answer these questions, this paper will discuss several other issues related to life in the periphery. We discuss nuances of the autobiography of fictionality and auto fiction. In addition, besides the discourse on memory, history and sociology, we will be framing the study around Interculturalism. This study will address in its first chapter the autobiography and the testimony of an imprisoned writer. In another moment, it will deal on the crowd and what the prisoner represent in the construction of the space of speech. In the third and final chapter, it addresses the question of subordination and the position of the poor and imprisoned writer, which takes the performance of the subordinate. It is observed contemporary forms of life in their paratopics spaces, having the prisoner as belonging to such spaces. Therefore, attempts to adapt the concept of literary work produced in prison with the concept of the multitude of literature. Positioning and repositioning of the subordinate in the literary field.