JAMAIS O FOGO NUNCA AND THE SUBVERSION OF THE WOMAN'S BODY AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE TO THE CHILEAN MILITARY DICTATORSHIP
women's literature, dictatorship, resistance, feminism.
This master's thesis is the result of a study in the field of theory and literary criticism and aims to observe and discuss the representation of the place occupied by women in resistance movements against the Chilean military dictatorship in the work Jamais o Fogo Nunca (2017) , by Diamela Eltit. In order to promote debates that are inserted in different fields of knowledge, this research was constituted from the contemporary narrative of the Chilean writer, reinforcing, in this case, the intrinsic relationship established between the literary field and the fields of historiography, of the discussions about gender (BUTLER, 2021), as well as symbolic practices regarding sexism in the field of politics that permeate not only the narrative context of the work, but also the current socio-political context (ZANELLO, 2018). From a literary production that highlights the voices historically silenced due to the position of subordination (SPIVAK, 2020), the character of Nunca o Fogo Nunca (2017) as a political act resists the imposed silencing. Through the narrator-character, it is proposed to rescue the memory of invisible bodies and is constructed as a political gesture of resistance that raises the struggles of social groups, which, although it seems individual in the narrative, emphasizes collective stories (ASSMANN, 2018 ).