| dc.description.abstract | The present PhD thesis, presented to the Graduate Program in Language
Studies of UFRN, records aspects about the study of memory work, from
the analysis of oral narratives that interweave the mnemonic process with
the history and the autobiography of narrators of the interior of Rio
Grande do Norte, especially of the microregion of the Vale do Açu. It is
investigated, in a qualitative and analytical way , aspects of gathered oral
narratives from popular narrators, through semi-structured interviews
performed in the social space of the interviewees recorded in audio and
then transcribed, besides relating to the analysis of these narratives ,
concepts and reflections obtained by the study of theories on individual
and collective memory, on autobiographical aspects and elements of the
so-called new history, such as history seen from below, reverberated by
the voice of ordinary individuals, of the people. It seeks, therefore, to
record the memory of the experiences lived by the narrators and how the
recollection of events interferes in the ways of perpetuating a "truth" in
the history of spaces, of individuals and social groups and as a formative
of a collection of histories – and not of History – agglutinated by the
narrative individuality of a common narrator. It is also investigated
elements of social history and elements of autobiographical history hat
merge into the textuality of the compiled narratives ; elements that reveal
aspects of the narrator's autobiography , from a I remember…, seeking to
examine textual aspects that indicate the presence of traces of the
individual history of the narrator, such as events whose narrative
participation reveals protagonism of the narrator, besides elements of the
history of the family nucleus, of the social group, among others. The
theoretical basis of the research focuses primarily on the writings of
Maurice Halbwachs, in A memória coletiva (2006; 2015), of Paul Ricoeur,
em A memória, a história e o esquecimento (2007), in the collection of
articles organized by Peter Burke in A escrita da história: novas
perspectivas (2011), and in the theories on autobiography present in
Pacto autobiográfico: de Rousseau à Internet (2014), of the Phillipe
Lejeune. It is considered that the narratives collected impl y, in an
autochthonous popular tradition, elements of the historicity of the social
group and of space and autobiographical elements of the individual
narrator raised by the processes of remembrance of the events. | |
