Histórias de mães, memórias de filhas: um estudo das intersecções e confluências entre ficção, história e memória em A mãe da mãe de sua mãe e suas filhas

Abstract

ABSTRACT The core of this research dwells in the investigation of the following guiding problem-question: how does the female representation in A mãe da mãe de sua mãe e suas filhas occur from the intersections and confluences between memory and history? Maria José Silveira's novel approaches the Brazilian ethnicity through a lineage of women from the same family. There are twenty-one women presented, most of the time, one in each chapter within a historical social context that covers the entire history of Brazil, while the history of these women and national history are built on a parallel of confluences and disjunctions between history /memory/fiction, touching or extrapolating formal history. The purpose of this research, therefore, is to analyze intersections and confluences between memory and history in the female representation in the novel, having as specific objectives to investigate how individual, collective and historical memories are consistent with the construction of female representation in the work; to verify disjunctions or confluences of female representations advocated in each period, delimited in the work, from its historical-social aspect; to identify, from the intersections and between memory and history, how the female representation is processed in the novel. This will be done by adopting research procedures of a basic nature, with explanatory objectives and bibliographic procedures, starting with a study focused on the intersections and confluences between memory and history based on the ideas of Maurice Halbwachs in A Memória collective (1990), Iván Izquierdo, Memory (2002), Michael Pollak, Memory and Social Identity (1992), Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, Oblivion (2007), Time and Narrative (1997) and Jacques Le Goff, History and Memory (1990) In addition, it seeks to promote a historical reflection on women's life in different periods of national history, based on the studies of Mary Del Priore and Renato Venancio in A Brief History of Brazil (2010); Carla Pinsky and Joana Pedro in New Women's History (2016); Mary Del Priore in History of Women in Brazil (2018); Simone Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1967) and Pierre Bourdieu in Masculine Domination (2012). Ending with the analysis of the work and five characters from the novel, Tebereté, Maria Cafuza, Jacira Antônia, Damiana e Maria Flor. Attending structural and sociological representation of the novel and evaluating their influence on female representation, based on the postulates of Antonio Candido, Literature and Society (2006), Mikhail Bakhtin in Issues of Literature and Aesthetics: the theory of the novel (2010) and Gérard Genette with Figures III (2017).