Memórias sobre tempos de repressão em performances narrativas de docentes

Abstract

This master’s thesis has as main aim to analyze the narrative performances of three retired teachers named Olga, Chico and Horácio. Those teachers taught during the military dictatorship period in Brazil. From this period, to inquire the meanings of the narratives emerging in the reconstruction of their professionals and personal memories. To achieve these aims this qualitative research, located in the indisciplinary area of Applied Linguistics (MOITA LOPES, 2006), was proceeded in the light of theorizations of narrative as performance and social memory. We also used the theoretical contributions of indexicality, indexicality orders and entextualization (BLOOMAERT, 2005, BAUMAN & BRIGGS, 2006, COLLINS, 2011). The narrative interview, which are addressed as a social interaction, constitute the methodology adopted. For analysis, it had used the five analytical tools proposed by Wortham (2001) and the consideration about construction of the narrator positioning (BAMBERG, 2002, DAVIES & HARRÉ, 1990). The analysis pointed out that, although each one of the teacher represent their performances in a singular way, some similarities were observed, such as the mobilization of certain indexicality orders, for example, of discrimination and of intolerance of a political position. Other similarities were the persecution suffered within educational institutions, the interference of the military in the universities and the social construction of the subversives through language practices of exclusion. The results still emphasize the use of metanarrative expressions that extend the event narrated to a narrative situation and direct the researcher-interviewer to understand the meaning constituted by the narrator. In relation to this, there were also updates of memory, in the process of remembering, due to the presence of the interlocutor.