Warriors and Maidens

memories of women about the Brazilian military-corporative dictatorship triggered in two narratives

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34019/2236-8191.2023.v11.40696

Abstract

This essay proposes to articulate the encounter between the cinematographic narratives Torre das Donzelas (2018) by filmmaker Susanna Lira and the memories of former political prisoner and activist Ana Maria Ramos Estevão in the book Torre das Guerreiras and other memories (2021). Dialogue with Walter Benjamin based on the author's proposal on the need to think about a new concept of history that privileges the tradition of the oppressed and, with that, access to the narration of memory in a collective perspective, in particular, from the traumas of the authoritarian regimes. By raising the importance of these two reports, we highlight the need to bring to light the construction of memory - even if traumatic -, of one of the most authoritarian historical periods in Brazil, the military-corporative dictatorship, thus reinforcing the role of art as a tool of resistance to forgetting and silencing policies.

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Author Biography

Francieli Rebelatto, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA)

Francieli Rebelatto - Professor of Cinema and Audiovisual at the Federal University of Latin
American Integration and at Unila's Graduate Program in Latin American Studies.
PhD in Cinema and Audiovisual by Federal Fluminense University, Master in Social Sciences and
Graduation in Journalism by UFSM. Filmmaker and photographer having recently premiered her feature film 'Pasajeras' in 2022.

Published

2023-07-31