“Pracinhas Monument”: historical and memorialistic narratives about the Brazilian Expeditionary Force

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Pauline Bitzer
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/14884
• topic: National Monument to the Dead of Second World War; Ex-combatants; Memory; Narrative; Patrimony; Memória; Narrativa; Monumento Nacional aos Mortos da Segunda Guerra Mundial

Although being questioned and forgotten for a long time because of the association of its image to the military government, the memoirs of the Second World War Brazilian ex-combatants was and still is very celebrated by its memories communities, resulting in a big number of monuments, especially the National Monument to the Dead of the Second World War (MNMSGM-RJ), popularly known as “Pracinhas Monument”, object of this paper. This article, product of the research realized in the Patrimony and History post-graduation program at Universidade Estadual de Londrina, aims to analyze the monumental group in its integrality, or in other words, the physical monument together with the immaterial aspects; the objective is to perceive what kind of historic and memorial narratives the Monument intended and intends to tell, considering all its faces: material, symbolic and functional. It is considered as a representation, a product and a maker of memoirs and identities that are not uniform and are in a constant remaking, and that’s why it is analyzed under the present-past-present dialog in the relation between society and patrimony.