El coro en La voz dormida : Análisis de las voces polifónicas

La novela La voz dormida, de Dulce Chacón, ofrece una lectura conmovedora. El trabajo presente tiene el propósito de escuchar las voces de unas mujeres que han estado silenciadas en un periodo de dictadura donde la libertad de expresión estaba limitada. A través de sus narraciones, estas mujeres transmiten su coraje y amistad y viven gracias a esta novela donde se pueden expresar libremente a modo de coro armonioso. A través de un análisis hermenéutico, nos acercamos a estas mujeres seleccionadas, fundamentándonos dentro de la teoría polifónica. La polifonía dará a La voz dormida una riqueza que se logra cuando la autora abandona la palabra y se la otorga a las mujeres. Es decir que Dulce Chacón permite a estas mujeres mantener cierta distancia, al narrar sus diversos puntos de vista y perspectivas que son propios de cada personaje.  

Além das versões: possibilidades da narrativa em entrevistas de história oral

The work with oral history consists of recording interviews which have historical and documental proprieties, with actors/actresses or witnesses of events, conjunctures, movements, institutions and ways of living along the contemporary history. One of its basic foundations is the narrative. An event or a situation lived by the interviewee can not be transmitted to any other person without being narrated. That means that it frames itself (meaning that it does become something) at the very moment of the interview. By telling his/her life experiences, the interviewee transforms what has been lived into language, selecting and organizing facts according to some determined meanings. This work of language in crystallising images (images which refer to, and mean again, life experience) is common in all narratives - and we do know that sometimes it is much more successful than others (just the way some oral history interviews are certainly more successful than others). However, perhaps we have not given yet all the attention needed to this work of language in the oral sources.

Racial discrimination in Brazil: interviews with leaders of the black movement

Racism in Brazil has some specificities when compared to other countries, for, differently from, for instance, South Africa and the United States, Brazilian Constitutions, ever since the Independence (1822), have never distinguished the citizens according to race or color. Furthermore, since the mid-1900s, Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestations, such as, for example, samba and capoeira, started to be valued as a part of our “national identity”. These specificities make race relations in Brazilian society a much more complex issue. This paper is focused on selected parts of interviews that deal with the nature of racial discrimination in Brazil, extracted from interviews with leaders of the black movement produced within the scope of the project “The History of Black Movement in Brazil: organization of a collection of Oral History Interviews”, developed by CPDOC, Getulio Vargas Foundation (Rio de Janeiro). These “histories within history”, as told by our interviewees, may be transformed into images that will be able to condense a given reality, thus allowing us to evaluate the gains obtained by oral history methodology.

Diário pessoal, autobiografia e fontes orais: a trajetória de Pierre Deffontaines

A proposta deste trabalho é discutir as características e as possibilidades de uso, para a pesquisa histórica, do diário da sra. Deffontaines e da autobiografia de Pierre Deffontaines, bem como dos depoimentos orais concedidos por seus descendentes. A idéia básica é analisar os pontos de convergência e os conflitos de memória apresentados nesses três tipos de fontes, e seus significados para a compreensão da trajetória intelectual de Deffontaines. A hipótese central que norteia a análise é a de que as três fontes revelam memórias divergentes, na medida em que as três modalidades de relato tinham objetivos diversos, foram produzidas em momentos distintos e por pessoas de gerações também diferentes: Deffontaines, sua mulher, sua filha e seu neto. Nosso objetivo será exatamente mostrar como e por que se delinearam essas memórias diferenciadas.