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Inspired by the discovery of some letters in Portuguese archives, in which a Brazilian woman defends herself against the Portuguese Inquisition in the 18th century, Maria Valéria Rezende published, in 2019, Carta à Rainha Louca. In the novel, the narrator, Isabel, struggles to resist the violence of colonizers against women, blacks and the underprivileged, undertaking a profound analysis of social relations established in colonial Brazil. Based on the reflection on how reading and writing form the mainstay of the feminist struggle against patriarchy, which took root in Brazilian lands during colonization, this paper aims to analyze the relationship between literature and history according to the fruitful dialogue established by this book with some important themes in the work of Paulo Freire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book Olga, by Fernando Morais, intends telling the life story of Olga Benario, the Jewish and communist wife of Luís Carlos Prestes who was in Brazil to assist on a socialist revolution. In the narrative process, the intertwining of history and literature happens which reveals a fertile soil for interdisciplinary investigation. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to analyze, through a literature review and an inductive process, the external data of the communicative situations correlating it with the reconstruction of the past procedure undertaken by historians and with the characteristics of the literary writing. To achieve that, the theoretical perspective of Patrick Charaudeau (2006; 2012), about the communication act; of Keith Jenkins (2009), about the historian craft; of Mary Del Priore (2009), about biographies; and of Paul Ricoeur (1997), about tramendum horrendum are used. In this process, it was possible to notice that, in the narrative, the informative and páthos views, of the condition of purpose of the communicative situation, are emphasized, since they favor, respectively, the connection between history and literature and the exposure of horror. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]