REVOLUÇÃO E REPRESSÃO, MARCAS NO CORPO E ALMA; POR QUE NÃO ALBERTINA TORRES? (1964-1978)
KEYWORDS: Memory; Autobiography; Civil-Military Dictatorship; Genre
The impacts of long years in democratic rupture in Brazil have aroused considerable interest in contemporary historical studies. In turn, the possibilities of sources brought by the New Political History have often been applied in the course of building about this "past". We deepened the studies about the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, through the autobiography, the oral history, the intimate and personal records and official documents of repressive origin. We are put in touch with the trajectory of Albertina Rodrigues, a woman from Bahia with one artistic soul, life companion of Nelson Pires, who had Her life crossed by unfolding of the 1964 coup. She was student of Fine Arts, Her artistic performances were marks in Her daily routine, even when she acted in the student movement and in the armed battles being arrested and tortured in Rio de Janeiro. She was the Enemy of the State, the "option" for hiding and exile, that's all She had left to stay alive, breaking Her own barriers, endure hardship faced in exile and face away from the distance of His son in another country were challenges to be fulfilled in the (re) discovery of Herself. Thus, upon hearing the call of Albertina, We will be near to one of the female voices that rebelled against the repression and in defense of democracy, realizing the subjective and gender issues that permeated this route. Thus, it becomes a voice rising and shows how the representations of the past may have marks left by the political situation in Brazil at least until 1985.