Narrativas autobiográficas: memórias de mulheres sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial

Abstract

This research work aims to analyze how the writings of “myself”, such as the intimate diary, autobiographical memories and self-fiction enable the representation of the woman in the context of the Second World War, individually, socially and historically in the contexts in which they lived. The female authors and their respective works selected for this research are: Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank, 1947; Eva Schloss, Eva’s Story, 1988, and After Auschwitz, 2013; and Svetlana Aleksiévitch, The Unwomanly Face of War, 1985. The main theoretical foundations of this research project are texts that privilege the writing of "myself" and testimony, especially traumatic memories. In this case, Lejeune, Foucault, Freud, Blanchot, Agamben, Todorov, Adorno, Butler, Suleiman, Bosi, and others proposals will be used as references. The ideas related to history and collective memory will be guided by Halbwachs, Ricœur, Nora, Pollak and Le Goff’s studies, in addition to other texts that will be included in the bibliography expansion. Related to gender studies and women's writing, texts by Lúcia Castello Branco and Ruth Silviano Brandão will be used in the dialogue with psychoanalysis, although this is not the main analysis focus. In the women's writing’s cultural perspective, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Elisabeth Badinter, Heloisa Buarque de Holanda, Teresa de Lauretis, and Virginia Woolf’s works will be the references. As support for cultural studies in the memories narratives, Stuart Hall and Homi Bhabha’s texts will be used as references.