Desencarcerando a liberdade: a experiência estética da leitura no centro de integração social da penitenciária feminina de Piraquara

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the impact of reading practices on the attribution of meanings to personal experiences and social interactions in the space-time, of the Piraquara Social Integration Center, considering reading as an aesthetic experience. The research corpus consists of 20 (twenty) texts collected in 8 (eight) workshops held in the prison between from day 11th to day 23th, november, 2022. A qualitative approach was adopted (Bortoni-Ricardo, 2008; Moita Lopes, 2019), considering social practices contextualized within the scope of social sciences. The theoretical-methodological framework is based on the dialogical conception of language and otherness, developed by the Bakhtin Circle (Amorim, 2004; Bakhtin 2011, 2014, 2015; Volóchinov 2021); reading from a dialogical perspective (Horelou-Lafarge, Segré 2010; Jouve, 2002; Chartier, 1999, 2001) reading as an aesthetic experience and the aesthetics of reception (Jauss, 1994; Yunes, 1995; Iser, 1999; Tinoco, 2010 ; Bajour 2012; Zilberman, 2001;); the connections of reading (Ricoeur, 1990; Iser, 1996; Foucault, 2001; Chartier, 2001; Compagnon; 2001; Fischer, 2006; Hunt, 2007; Petit, 2008; Cândido, 1998; Manguel, 2017; Batista-Santos and Dalbosco , 2023), among other theorists. Three (3) analysis parameters were proposed, consisting of indicators for appreciating the corpus, resulting from the comparison between the research objectives and the theoretical framework mobilized. The elements for establishing the analysis parameters include reading as an aesthetic experience, the text-reader relationship, the construction of otherness and reading as an exercise of personal expression and freedom. The analysis of the selected texts revealed that reading in environments of deprivation of freedom plays a significant role in organizing experiences, in ordering the chaos in which readers live and as an exercise of freedom, despite spatial restrictions. Although reading alone does not have the power to transform society, it grants readers deprived of their freedom the elementary right to express themselves freely, record their memories and give new meaning to their personal experiences. The intertextualities, the ambiguity of their intentions, the textual marks, the communicative perspective between subjects, highlight the interactive dimension of human action, highlighting interpretation as a continuous and decentralized process that promotes the construction of otherness.