Alice Vaz de Melo e o memorialismo em Ivinhema: umas e outras sobre a cidade menina

Abstract

This Master degree dissertation in Literature and Cultural Practices has the corpus of analysis composed by eleven (11) chronicles written by Alice Vaz de Melo and published in the session “Umas e outras” [“Ones and others”] of the newspaper “O grito” [“The scream”], between 1970 and 1971, and two texts with characteristics of a diary, dated April and August 1962. The chronicles report, through memories, the events involved in the formation and development of the city called Ivinhema, a small town in Mato Grosso do Sul, in their early years of emancipation. The two intimate texts are also related to memory. To achieve the proposed objectives: understand the phenomenological manifestations of memory and verify the presence of historical and cultural aspects within these writings, the texts will be analyzed by the memoirs studies bias, with the help of authors such as Maurice Halbwachs, St. Augustine, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Le Goff, Karl Erik Schollhammer, Tania Regina de Souza, among others, used for the purpose of showing that, over time and in different branches of human knowledge, the issue of memory and its manifestations are given different approaches. It is also present in the discussion the position that confessional literature, until recently seen as a "minor genre", occupies today in literary studies, a fact that should, by far, the studies of Philippe Lejeune, dedicated to the recognition the memoir genre as a representative of "good" literature. To develop this study were implemented research strategies such as: survey of publications for the purpose of investigating the productions of Alice Vaz de Melo who fit in the memoir genre, and research on the influences and contributions of the author to the city where she resided.