"Being hospitalized is spend all day stuck": the everyday life in Stela do Patrocínio autobiographical talk.

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the speech of a patient in the Juliano Moreira Colony, whose uniqueness and poetry gained prominence on the national level. I refer to Stela. His speech was carefully recorded between 1986 and 1989 and has inspired exhibitions, theater shows and songs. Through the analysis of such sources, to analyze the vision of Stela about the institution where he lived for about thirty years. In his speech to life in the institution is brought to light as a mode of existence in which the individual creates relationships based on their own possibility of action. Stela is not silent, played with their only chance of action before the institutional boundaries: his speech, permeated by astonishment, indignation, and without doubt, very clear.