Between memories and forgetfulness: a construction of the historicity of Teresina-PI
Memory. Information. Oral narratives. Teresina - history
In the perspective of the Human and Social Sciences, memory is studied as a product of the relationships of social interaction between individual and society that, affecting each other, generate connections capable of producing meanings and meanings in a dynamic and dialogical scenario. In concrete, in space, in the environment in which social subjects coexist and travel through the fabric of life, memory becomes rooted and gains material contours. In this process is the city, which frames the relations of the individual with his social group, enabling the development of human and social experiences. From their sensitive perceptions, the inhabitants of the city produce speeches and images beyond their physical configuration, making it a place that carries meaning and memories. In this direction, this study seeks to understand the interlocutions existing between individual, collective and official memory in the process of representation of the city of Teresina. Through a qualitative and exploratory study, anchored in dialectics and historical materialism, we try to construct a narrative of Teresina's historicity using, above all, the memories of the elderly who with it have woven affective memories, reflected in their ways of seeing , meaning and experience the city. It was carried out with elderly people living in the shelter of the Abrigo São Lucas Foundation, located in Teresina-PI. The proposed investigation adopted as a method of data collection the production of interviews according to the unstructured system, which consists in the elaboration of a previous script where the interviewees are led to the spontaneous description of the facts. In the process of stimulating the construction of narratives, the technique of photo interview was also used, with the presentation of photographs of the city acting as triggering resources for memories. For the analysis of the collected data, we focused on Discourse Analysis theorized by Michel Pêcheux, for whom discourse is built at the confluence of ideological, historical and social contexts. Research has shown that older people, although they are not aware of this, play an important role in reconstituting their experiences. Their representations, although starting from the individual scope, refer to collective events that portray urban ways of life and spaces of the city, meant by and for their inhabitants. It is concluded that the oral reports constitute potential informational elements to bring new contributions to the understanding of the historicity of Teresina, which can trigger new possibilities of professional work of the librarian, in the dialogical perspective between information and memory.