Testemunho da experiência da infância no exílio e sua representação no conto infanto-juvenil meninos sem pátria, de Luiz Puntel

Abstract

We analyzed the testimony of the children of political militants of the Military Dictatorship of 1964, which reports on the experience of childhood in exile and the form with which that experience was represented in literary production. For this, we selected two objects of study: 1) The testimonial narrative “Why are you so sad?” by Marta Nehring, published in 2014 and; 2) The fictional narrative Homelass boys, by Luiz Puntel, published in 1988. We use testimony studies as a theoretical framework (SELIGMANN-SILVA, 2008, 2001); memory (SARLO, 2007; BASILE, 2019); testimony literature (MARCO, 2004; SELIGMANN-SILVA, 2003; LUQUE, 2003); exile (SAID, 2003; VIÑAR; VINÃR, 1992; ROLLEMBERG, 2007; BIROL, 2017; MONTAÑÉS, 2006); and utopia (SZACHI, 1972). We found that the selected narratives present a set of characteristics inherent to the children's exile experience, among them, the understanding of exile as a utopian place, a space of freedom, survival and resistance to authoritarianism in states of exception.