Éramos jovens, éramos muitos: memórias de dois casais de esquerda na América Latina

Abstract

The fieldwork corresponding to this research is structured around the narratives evoked through the personal files of two couples who had been politically active between 1960 and 1990. Both couples, one Uruguayan and one Brazilian, define their own subjectivities asleftist. The goals of these studies are on the one hand, to generate a space-time link between the memories of both couples, connecting separate places, episodes and people at the level of the anthropological discourse. The device generated by this unwinding can close the gap between discontinuities and illuminate historical and emotionalcommonalities. Fragments of the ethnographic encountered are structured as a narrative in order to analyze the content of these commonalities and their potential differences. This exhibits an image of heterogeneity but at the same time allows us to think on the definingfutures of a leftist ontology that traverses their life as couples. Secondly, this study reflects on the process of remembrance common to each couple by introducing objects from the couples' personal files. We generate an update of the remembered narratives through thisintervention and argue that these personal files are living space-times that instigate these subjects to reconfigure themselves.