WHAT SUBJECTS ARE CONDEMNED IN THIS MEMORY WORK? CONCERNS ABOUT CROSSWORDS, BY GUIOMAR DE GRAMMONT

Abstract

This article deals with fictional texts that thematize the Guerrilha do Araguaia, a movement that responded to the massacre of PCdoB militants who wanted a peasant-based revolution from the north of the country, promoting the overthrow of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). It deals with the work of memory that operates on the archive, constituting literature also as an archive, serving, therefore, for the production of meanings for the recent past of the country. Part of the productions that thematize it are analyzed here, with more attention to Guiomar de Grammont's novel, Palavras Cruzas. With a text whose main characteristic is the explicitness of polyphony, the author seems to intend to build a more objective picture of the events, sanctioning the two sides involved in the confrontation. By rallying different voices, it ends up, finally, aligning itself with those who condemn the subjects who acted in the political resistance to the dictatorship.