Acervo de escritores mineiros: a potência dos arquivos literários

Abstract

This article was presented at the 2020 IV Edition of DIVERMINAS and aims to make a presentation of the Acervo de Escritores Mineiros (AEM) of the Federal University of Minas Gerais alongside a reflection on the power of literary archives for the development of research in the field of literary and cultural studies. In this sense, the spatial conception of the AEM will be considered. This conception gives a scenographic and museographic treatment to writers’ archives and is capable of taking into account the heterogeneity of the materials that constitute them. This approach allows for a consideration and articulation of the visible and the sayable in literary archives, considering the categories of the virtual and the real, from the processes of digitization of memory. With this, it is also intended to highlight both the relations of forces that cross literary archives, which signal to an other (or outsider), and to raise some possibilities and challenges that electronic and digital archives pose when working with literary and cultural memory in contemporaneity is involved.