“Catatau”, fanzine e poesia: escrita nas prisões cearenses

Abstract

This dissertation is dedicated to describe what prisoners from Ceará write, how they write and what effects this writing produces and what place it occupies in the prison context. I expand the ethnographic field work that I have been doing since 2015 in prisons in Ceará that house provisional prisoners in order to investigate how writing can express an incarcerated life experience. I think how this experience of being imprisoned is produced, in the feeling of representation and belonging and in the presentation of different perspectives of what it is to be imprisoned. Thus, I look at the ways in which these individuals create the conditions to carry out the activity of writing in a space of daily interdictions. I observe what the paper, in its content and form, says about these people, the events they experience in ways they live and the ways they relate to other inmates, their families and professionals who work in the prison. I seek the narratives of inmates of the Casa de Privação Provisória de Liberdade Professor Jucá Neto - CPPL III, located in Itaitinga/CE, but I privilege those who organize their intramural experience through writing configured in the productions of catataus, fanzines and poetic manuscripts that circulate there, as well as those of a custodian who became one of my main interlocutors, Adão