O Escritor nas Garras da PIDE - Literatura, Sociedade e Repressão no Contexto do Estado Novo

Fauri, Ana L.

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Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Fauri, Ana L (creator); Almeida, Onésimo (Director); Simas-Almeida, Leonor (Reader); Valente, Luiz (Reader); Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Repression; Political Police; Portuguese New State; Literature; Censorship; Political persecution; Police--Political activity
Extent:: ix, 245 p.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0QJ7FR0

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Abstract:: This dissertation analyses the political thought of three Portuguese writers, Fernando Namora, Jose Cardoso Pires, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, in their fictional work and in the information about them found in archival primary sources from the Portuguese New State (1933-1974). It examines the social and the anti-regime contents of the fictional works in books that were censored, while aiming to establish a dialogue between literature and history. In order to understand the implications of the writers' ideology and political thought, it analyses the ways these writers confronted the dictatorship's hegemonic discourse, and the difficulties created by its authoritarian mechanisms, especially through censorship and repression. Primary sources found at the National Archives of Torre to Tombo, in Lisbon, and the National Archives, in Maryland, provide a broader perspective on how the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, the U.S. Department of State, and the Portuguese Political Police perceived the issues faced by these writers, allowing a closer look at the concrete implications of the writers' political activity both nationally and internationally. It also attempts to show how censorship and political police reports can work side by side with literary works in order to create a larger framework of understanding of the struggles that affected the country so deeply. The analysis of censorship reports indicates that even though the repressive apparatus can be considered effective, the government's bureocracy made their work inconsistent. Moreover, while some books conveyed an ideological message through literary techniques to avoid repercussions, others openly criticized the regime; the censorship response to either though seems to depend on the censor's personal perspective on each book. It is possible to conclude that the Portuguese writers' responses against the lack of freedom and means of the majority of the population in a backward-thinking Portugal are not only legitimate, but a much needed opposition, and not even the efforts perpetrated by the State were able to change the writers’ beliefs or diminish their critique of the authoritarian regime.
Notes:: Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2016)

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Fauri, Ana L., "O Escritor nas Garras da PIDE - Literatura, Sociedade e Repressão no Contexto do Estado Novo" (2016). Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0QJ7FR0

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