“Se eu nascesse mil vezes, mil vezes casaria com Elenita”: história de vida da professora Maria Elenita de Vasconcelos (Pedra Lavrada-PB, 1944-1984).

Abstract

This dissertation is a study about the trajectory of Maria Elenita de Vasconcelos (1944-1984), teacher and social scientist, born in Pedra Lavrada-PB. The guiding axis of this writing will be to discuss their memories built, from their relatives, friends and residents of the city. In the first moment, we will present a discussion about the friendships that she had in the city and we noticed that the affective relations were a mark of prominence in her life, mainly in the memories of actions that demonstrated to be a woman that tried to live with its friends a relation of affection and companionship. In the second moment we problematized the memory of Elenita as mother and wife and we realized the importance of Ido had in the construction of this one and for having been one of the main people who tried to preserve the paper of her as wife and mother. In the third and final chapter, we will look at recent events in Elenita's life, mainly from the discovery of the third pregnancy and the diagnosis of cancer. We also seek to reflect upon her wishes after death and we understand from the reading of the sources that the teacher made of her last events on earth, a final spectacle appropriating her affective symbolic power consciously or not so that her wishes were fulfilled . As sources, we used photographs of the educator and some places that were part of her story, interviews with relatives and friends, a postcard written by her own a few months before her death and a letter testament addressed to Lavradenses, some relatives and friends. In order to base our discussions, the contributions of Foucault (1981) were used through his studies on the aesthetics of existence, as a relationship that leads the subject to the transformation of self, from the relation and existence of the other. The works of Pinsky (2014), Louro (1997) and Perrot (2017) on the ideals built around women in the "Golden Years", period of which this work is inserted, were also fundamental to us, as Halbwachs (2006) and Delgado (2010), through which we discuss memory and its relation to history. In order to understand the relationship between historical research and biography, we analyzed the work of Dosse (2009) that discusses the tension between this genre and the modern approach that has as a parameter relativism and historiographical readings, enriched by the contributions of other areas of knowledge such as psychoanalysis and sociology.