Discursos e representações do corpo durante a ditadura militar no Brasil (1968-1979)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discuss the representations and discourses on the body produced during the military dictatorship in Brazil (1968-1979). To historicizing them, we intend to analyze documents originating in the censorship and repression organs (mainly originating in DCDP: Division of Censorship of Public Entertainment), letters from ordinary citizens addressed the government, memories records, materials from magazines and even bibliographic production on the period studied. In addition to the documentary analysis, we observed peculiarities and contradictions that were part of the historical context. Although the relationship of 'revolutionary morality' of the left in this context with the body. Through this examination, we see the body as a privileged locus to address and understand the society of that time, its symbolic elements and the production of subjectivities. We seek the body historicizing, give visibility to the power forces and ways of knowing that substanciavam discourses and representations that supported the censorship and defense of "morals and good customs" (ruling that was recrudescido from the I-5 in 1968) as promoted by the dictatorial regime and the conservative and authoritarian portion of society that supported them. Locate addresses control, stigma, standardization and categorization of bodies that were considered deviant, immoral or abnormal. This includes the discussion of the political dimension of torture, as the exercise of trying to control and maximum punitive power to rebel bodies.