A dramaturgia de Antônio Mendes: edição interpretativa do texto teatral censurado em Contos da senzalaALA

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to explore the dramaturgical production of Antônio Mendes, considering, especially, the text Contos de senzala, for which an interpretative edition was made. Antônio Mendes de Oliveira was a playwright from Bahia who paved the way for the presence of black subjects in the amateur theater scene during the 1970s and 1980s, a period in which society lived under a dictatorial regime and when censorship was more pronounced in entertainment. public. The relevance of Antônio Mendes to the amateur theater groups was immeasurable, however, the erasure and silencing regarding him is noticeable. In this work, from a philological perspective, with emphasis on Textual Criticism, we sought to edit and study the processes of production, transmission and circulation of Mendes' dramaturgical production, resulting in the organization of the Antônio Medes Collection and the interpretative edition for Contos de senzala, analyzed as a process and product of Bahian socio-history and culture. The present study is relevant for contributing to the dissemination of a forgotten dramatic literature, which reveals the power of Antônio Mendes as a black intellectual, as well as proposes a reflection on the censorship practice and its consequence for the production of Bahian amateur dramaturgy.