Chronotopic Dimensions of Authoritarianism and Violence in Brazilian and Austrian Autobiographical Testimonies
Memories of historical traumas (war, natural disaster, genocide, dictatorship, etc.) continue to play an important role in discourse and, more broadly, in social relations in several countries. In the context of the problematic memory work carried out in Brazil regarding the civil–military dictators...
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Argumentation et analyse du discours
2026
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| Итог: | Memories of historical traumas (war, natural disaster, genocide, dictatorship, etc.) continue to play an important role in discourse and, more broadly, in social relations in several countries. In the context of the problematic memory work carried out in Brazil regarding the civil–military dictatorship and in Austria regarding the Shoah and the Second World War, a resurgence of life writing embedded in literary discourse can be observed in both countries, and among authors originating from them. This contribution presents the results of a contrastive analysis of autobiographical testimonies of this kind. Within the methodological framework of contrastive discourse analysis (von Münchow 2021) and inspired by the thought of Mikhail Bakhtin – particularly through the concept of the chronotope (1978 [1937-38]) – the study seeks to describe discursive representations of authoritarianism, repression, and violence according to three chronotopic dimensions: (1) the external dimension related to the reported events; (2) the external dimension related to the narratives; and (3) the internal dimension. The corpus comprises the narratives Ainda estou aqui (2015) by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Volto semana que vem (2014) by Maria Pilla, Weiter leben (1992) by Ruth Klüger, and Vienna (2005) by Eva Menasse. The analyses highlight how autobiographical discourse, within each discursive culture, enables the articulation of individual and collective memory, thereby configuring forms of critical resistance to negationism, authoritarianism, and violence. |
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