MEMORIES OF RESISTANCE TO THE CIVIL AND MILITARY DICTATORSHIP OF 1964 IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON: THE TESTIMONIES OF FEELING BY LINIANE HAAG BRUM AND WANDA MONTEIRO

Abstract

The study aims to present an analysis of two productions strongly committed to the formats of testimony: Antes do Pastado – o silencio que vem do Araguaia (2012), by Liniane Haag Brum, and Chão de Exílio (2022), by Wanda Monteiro. Both productions are related to the memory of resistance to the Civil and Military Dictatorship of 1964, established in Brazil. In Antes do Passado – the silence that comes from Araguaia, Brum recounts his search for his uncle, Cilon Cunha Brum, a fighter in the Araguaia Guerrilla, from the 1960s until the moment of Cilon's disappearance in the 1970s. Chão de Exílio constitutes if, according to the author, Wanda Monteiro, as a reinvented memory, to reflect on the self-imposed exile, experienced by her father, the writer Benedicto Monteiro, after suffering successive arrests, perpetrated by the same dictatorial government. Both productions have in common the hybrid condition of writing, learning about an affective object, and finally, this is our working hypothesis – the composition of what I call testimony of feeling.