“Grito, logo existo": Reinaldo Arenas, o rebelde (1943-1990)
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2019-09-27
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This dissertation examines the autobiographic work Before Night Falls, by the
cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. Born in 1943, under the sign of Fulgêncio
Batista’s ditactorship, saw the socialism being implemented on the island in
1943, being part of a target group that the Revolution wanted to reach: the
youth. Under the precept of the New Man, which considered as a duty of the
cuban man to be viril and strong defensor of the revolutionary ideas, the
youngs were modeled to achieve this model of masculinity and guerrilla man.
Writer and homossexual, faced it on two fronts, since the writer oppositors of
the regime were considered counterrevolutionaries and, therefore, intolerable;
besides the persecution of homossexuals. Was exiled by the port of Mariel in
1980, in a migratory movement mostly forged by Young people who where
coerced to support and sustain the Revolution, but who suffered persecutions
for their convicctions against the regime and the prevailing morale. By its
report, we identify two forms that Arenas used as resistance. For one, his own
writing. For him, the literature was his forme of existence and acting in the
world, both with the autobiography, a scream for freedom and against
oppression, and his books that, even though ficcional, made clear allusions
and harsh critics to Castrism. Second, Arenas used his homossexuality as
rebellion against the cuban morale. Exiled and devastated by AIDS, the author
judged that he didn’t have the recognition he deserved in life, and the
autobiography emerge as a way to correct this neglect and a way to exist
among the individuals once he was gone. All this questions were analyzed by
the optics of Writing of the Self, focusing on the autobiographical subject in
Before the Night Falls, principal source of this work. Estructured in three
chapters, we will examine first Arena’s childhood and the idealization that he
makes of this period from his life. Following chronology, in the second chapter
appears a young Arenas, enthusiastic about the Revolution, where we also
discuss questions like the cuban machista tradition, Arena’s literary life, the
New Man Project of Che Guevara and the place of intelectuals and
homossexuals within the Revolution. In the third chapter, we follow the
author’s escape by Mariel and what he found in the United States of America,
period where he meditated about himself and all the body of his work. Our
main goal is to presente na rebellious individual, who judged never founding
his place in the world and who suffered countless exiles during his life: be on
the Island, by the repression of his sexuality and writing; be by his condition
of marielito or by AIDS. Presented in Before the Night Falls, Arenas seeks for
a post mortem justice he didn’t get in life, and all the arguments of this
dissertation seek the comprehension of the message Arenas seeked to
cristalyze in his autobiographic writing.
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MENDES, Bruna Alves Carvalho. “Grito, logo existo": Reinaldo Arenas, o rebelde (1943-1990). 2019. 105 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2019.