HISTORY THAT IS BORN OF A WAR SILENCE: MEMORIES OF A OLD QUILOMBO
Abstract
In the backwoods of Pernambuco-Brazil, between mountains and grottoes, is the Quilombola Community of Santana. It is in this community that the silent memory of World War II inhabits the mind and marks of life of Luiz Rocha, an old man from Quilombo, summoned to the army during this period. Here he narrates the saga of fear, doubts and silence of a time that is not lost in his memory, and presents itself in other voices. The objective is to reflect the fact in the line of the process of symbolic construction of collective identity. The path of Oral History brings, as a theoretical contribution, the ideas of Bosi (1994), Halbwachs (1950) and Pollak (1992). In the text, he tells all the backstage of this epic that transcends the boundaries of his life and the life of the people of the place, allowing to infer that the construction of identity starts from the perspective of the "I" to the "other" within ethos and history.
