A memória das representações de morte e AIDS no conto e no cinema na década de 80

Abstract

The present dissertation entitled "The Memory of Representations of Death and SIDA in the 80's in the Short story and Cinema" analyzes how the memory of the representations of death and aids in the contisio of Caio Fernando Abreu and in the cinematographic production of the end of the decade was constituted. 80. Therefore, in this process we resort to literary, historical, sociological, philosophical and artistics contributions regarding the relations between memory, death and SIDA. The 1980s were marked by the discovery of SIDA and this discovery generated worldwide fear because of the high levels of disease lethality. We can say that the discovery of the HIV virus "immobilized" science, because it was responsible for provoking a set of traumatic situations, which involved silencing, prejudice and entanglement. Therefore, we seek to identify the memory-building process in the history of death and SIDA representations in Brazil, to recognize how Caio Fernando Abreu, in The Dragons do not know paradise (1988), represents death by relating it to SIDA using a literary language of resistance, and reflect on the testimonial content of the film: Crossroads (Directed by Rob Epstein, USA / 1989). The research proposed here follows a methodology of bibliographic study in which we conclude that the memory of SIDA in the 80s reveals a representation of catastrophic death and silencer, marked by prejudice and inefficiency of public policies, but also witnesses the resistance of social movements for the conquest of rights. Thus, the existence of a collective memory that represented the historical reality of SIDA enables us to hope for better days where the human being is more harmoniously related to death, where there is greater understanding of the difference between living with HIV and dying of SIDA. And in this textual construction literature still has much to contribute to breaking the silences that surround the temporality of existing.