ABSTRACT
The contemporary artistic production and critique has put into question the need to observe different historical perspectives that have been silenced, in order to oppose and resist the obliteration of those experiences lived by different groups, races, ethics, and colors. However, in a country like Brazil, defined by its drastic social inequalities, this attempt was and it is characterized by the disjunction and mediation. This mediation is often characterized by productions in which the intellectual, white and rich, organizes and edits someone else's work, a subaltern, black, poor experience and testimony. If the intellectual figure is central to reveal e subscribe theses histories, in another hand, the mediation isn't impartial, but highlighted by power relations. This article intends to introduce questions about literature of testimony and prison literature and to analyze two examples of literary works about the prison, Sobrevivente André du Rap (2002) and Cela forte mulher (2003), in order to debate how the writings structure and interrogate the radical alterity mediation among intellectuals and inmates, its ethical and textual obstacles, as well and to think about the difficult about stablishing one (or many) authorship when faced to a certain ownership appropriation of someone else's voice.
Keywords:
Testimony; Autorship; Prison