“Goiás que a história guardou”: mulheres, ditadura e cultura dos anos 1960

• Autor(a) principal: Prado, Paulo Brito do
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/0013000008sh7
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3835
• topic: Women; Dictatorship; Culture; Goiás; Mulheres; Ditadura; Cultura; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The survey “‘Goiás that history saved’: women, culture and dictatorship in the 1960s,” examines the historical trajectories of two women who lived in the city of Goiás and had their intersecting lives in a period of intense political debate in Brazil. Altair Camargo Steps and Elina Maria da Silva was "found " in 1965 after police action in the city of Goiás, which resulted in the arrest of Elina along with others involved in the projects of the occasion. Among the prisoners, one was the son of Altair Camargo. During the season the arrest of her son, Altair has produced a kind of memorial, a place of memories of prisons in Goiás. This memorial/place of memories has become a major source of historical research since it showed the maternal and feminine reading of prisons in Goiás. After returning from prisons Elina Maria and young prisoners began the project of (re) invention and production of related beliefs vilaboenses traditions and their historical and cultural legacy. As the debate about the need to value this cultural legacy was already something common among the group members, although founded in 1965 with the help of “guardians of memory/history” of Goiás Vilaboense Organization of Arts and Traditions (OVAT). The problems are rooted in the working condition of silence in which women mentioned were maintained. Altair Camargo and Maria Elina played an important role in the political and cultural debate then. They pleaded process keeps local history and belief system in Goiás, however their trajectories, their stories and memories were "saved" and forgotten within the collective memory of Goiás Work analyzed in the following narrative, try to problematize these “silences of history.”