Literature and Freedom: reading and writing seclusion environments
reading; education; remission of the penalty; crisis environments; inclusion; resocialization.
This doctoral thesis reflects on reading and writing in places of deprivation of liberty. The work analyzes projects and initiatives to promote these practices in prison spaces. The experience of prisoners and prisoners who started to write professionally is analyzed from the theoretical concept of "reading in crisis environments", developed by researcher Michèle Petit. Based on this theoretical key, the thesis analyzes the mediation modes to reach these readers inaccessible to social contact, but willing to reframe their daily lives from the contact with books. The focus of the analysis will be the Rodas de Leitura project, developed by the Government of MG during the years 2017 and 2018, which allowed for 45 analysis and discussion meetings on literary works, with the participation of more than 600 inmates. Interviews with participants in this project will be a key to assessing the impacts of reading in seclusion environments.