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This article analyzes the work Memoirs of a Survivor, Luiz Alberto Mendes, to have been produced on the prison experience; he puts himself in testimonial literature condition, the author assumes a condition of subaltern. The construction of this work it is performed by memory resources and fits what is denominated testimonial literature. Is therefore literary work propitious TO STUDY Memory and sociology, as preserves itself, Beyond the Own Literary Feature, numerous other interpretive possibilities. It brings the memory and the author's own life story elements, telling the critical moments experienced by him in childhood, suffocated by his father as a teenager, enclosed in reformatories , and his adulthood, in a prison in São Paulo. Moments of strong relations of subalternities. Discuss nuances of memory and subordination, adopting a new nomenclature: a double subordination, because it is a poor writer, so subordinate in the attached condition, that is, double subordinate. This study also address the resistance against the dominant discourse through the testimony of a writer prisoner. We bring questions about the crowd and in what prisoner represents among many in the construction of space and speech. Therefore, attempts to adapt the concept of literary work produced in prison with the concept of the multitude of literature. Writing of many. Positioning and repositioning of the subaltern in the literary field.

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  • Resumo: O presente artigo analisa Memórias de um sobrevivente, de Luiz Alberto Mendes, que, por ter sido produzida sobre a experiência de cárcere, se coloca na condição de literatura testemunhal e seu autor assume uma condição de subalterno

  • Portanto é uma obra escrita por “pobre”, nestes termos, um escritor marginal, que traz um posicionamento do autor enquanto testemunho da barbárie vivenciada por ele e pelos pobres e presos do Brasil

  • Também, questões relacionadas à vida de Mendes na constituição de uma cultura periférica

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Resumo: O presente artigo analisa Memórias de um sobrevivente, de Luiz Alberto Mendes, que, por ter sido produzida sobre a experiência de cárcere, se coloca na condição de literatura testemunhal e seu autor assume uma condição de subalterno. Luiz Alberto Mendes além de ser um escritor marginal é o dono da voz, num espaço que não se constitui, normalmente, campo de criação literária contra a hegemonia dos opressores.

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