Wefts of memory: women's testimonies on military dictatorships in Brazil and Argentina

Author(s)

Danielle Tega

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2015-03-27

Examining board members

Maria Lygia Quartim de Moraes; Luzia Margareth Rago; Jeanne Marie Gagnebin; Lucila Scavone; Alejandra Oberti

• Advisor: Maria Lygia Quartim de Moraes

Abstract

Our study examines the testimonies of women who fought as militants, were captured, became political prisoners or had their lives, in some form or another, crossed by the horrors of the Terrorisms of the Brazilian and Argentine State. We explore the uniqueness of these narratives through a double perspective, based both on memory studies, in particular that of witness accounts, as well as feminist criticism. Stemming from the subjective impact caused by the traumatic experience of these women narrators, we seek to highlight the relationships among subjectivity, memory and gender. As a space of subjective reconstruction, the writing and audiovisual creations are considered forms of resistance which are potentially subversive to patriarchal logic (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/17421-0 - Memory's weft: a study of women's narratives on civil-military’s dictatorships in Brazil and Argentina
• Grantee: Danielle Tega
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate