Violência e ditadura militar : uma análise a partir das obras de Plínio Marcos e Roniwalter Jatobá

Abstract

This research aims to discuss the issue of violence in the period of Military Dictatorship in Brazil, from two types of sources: literary works and theater pieces. Through the works of Plínio Marcos and Roniwalter Jatobá, produced literary works and theater pieces in the first two decades of military rule and questioning the violence in the class struggle, both as a tool of repression of the ruling class as well as workers' resistance tool. The two writers lived in the period of the Military Dictatorship, and sought to express their anxieties, fears and indignities against the changes wrought by the 1964 coup. Their protagonists are the poorest and most marginalized workers in society: cripples workers and unemployed, prostitutes and pimps, waste pickers. Through these characters the authors compose narratives that sensitize the reader and help the historian to understand various issues about the changes social, political and economic suffered by workers in that context. The violence that the writers reveal in yours works is not the torture carried out by the military, but the violence caused by poverty and marginalization that a significant portion of the working class was subjected in the Dictatorship. These workers compose the lumpenproletariat, according to the reflections on the concept of Karl Marx in Book I of Capital. I also discuss the violence as a form of working class resistance, reflecting on their meanings