Svetlana Aleksiévitch e as mulheres do front: jornalismo, literatura e testemunho

Abstract

This work is built around the relationship between journalism, literature and testimony present in the work The Unwomanly Face of War, written by the Ukrainian writer and journalist Svetlana Aleksiévitch, awarded in 2015 with the Nobel Prize in Literature, for her polyphonic writing, and exalted as a monument to suffering and courage in our time. The discussions held here focused, firstly, on the analysis of the boundaries between journalistic, literary and testimonial discourses, then on the reflection of these different narratives, and their literary statutes, inhabit the text and the work of the writer, whose complexity is especially evident throughout the process of constitution of the work and the different states of the text. For this, this work mobilizes concepts that traverse different fields of knowledge: in addition to criticism and literary theory and cultural studies, the contribution of the sociology of texts and gender studies contributed to the establishment of reflections. In her work, Aleksiévitch permeates several discourses in an attempt to elaborate possible narratives about trauma and catastrophe, from a female perspective. By carrying a veritable multiplicity of forms, genres and discourses, The Unwomanly Face of War contributes to the revisiting of paradigms imposed on literature, especially literature written by women, and denounces the silencing of the voices of Soviet women at the same time as criticizes a patriarchal society based on violence and war.