O narrar e o contar-se: a trajetória de vida de mulheres que foram militantes políticas no período da ditadura militar no Brasil.

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the life trajectory of five women who were political activists during the period of the military dictatorship in Brazil. They are: Dilma Rousseff, Iara Iavelberg, Sônia Angel Jones, Vera Sílvia Magalhães and Dulce Maia. They all participated in leftist organizations, lived in hiding, had to use false names - codenames, they were arrested, some exiled, tortured, others killed, and there were those who survived. In order to think and discuss these stories, we select the videoobiographies, which seek to show through their narratives stories of subjects that have their trajectories interconnected with important events, such as the history of these women. These videobiographs have the testimony with a central object, which articulates the play of memory and forgetfulness. Among the productions that have been selected are: Twilight in Alvorada (Conexão Reporter / SBT, 2016), Paredes Pintadas (Pedro Santos, 2010), Iara Remembrance of a Woman (Alberto Baumstein, 1994), Sônia Morta Viva (Sergio Waismann, 1985) and Political Memory (Ivan Santos, 2004). In addition to these we selected two biographies to compose our sources, they are: Iara Biographical Report (Judith Patarra, 1992) and Women who went to the armed struggle (Luiz Maklouf Carvalho, 1998). From these sources we think how these five women talk about themselves, how they construct their subjectivities, what their stories mean, that is, how they talk about their experiences. Another problem is the construction of representations about these women, that is, as family members, friends, ex-political companions, ex-spouses, ex-boyfriends and journalists, try to represent moments in the life trajectory of these women. From these problems, we work with concepts such as military dictatorship, videoobiography, testimony, memory, forgetfulness, self-writing, representation, subjectivity, women, feminism, experience, among others. We realize that there is a struggle for not forgetting so many stories of people who fought against a repressive and authoritarian government that was set up in a military dictatorship in Brazil. It narrates itself and the other, so that so many stories do not fall into oblivion.