VOICES FROM MEMORY: ORAL NARRATIVES OF WASHERWOMEN IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF ITAMARAJU-BA
Women; Washerwomwn; Narratives; Autobiographies, Memory.
The main purpose of this research is to study the life stories of women washerwomen in the city of Itamaraju-Ba, considering their memories that are sometimes silenced and removed from formal spaces of knowledge. In this perspective, it is sought from the narratives of these women, to identify what their experiences were, making it possible to explore subjectivities that until then were not valued in the present municipality. This research presents a methodological (auto) biographical approach, since it seeks interpretations about the experiences built over the life of the washerwomen in the municipality of Itamaraju. According to Delory-Momberger (2012), biographical research uses the study of modes of existence, of constituting subjects as a social being, endowed with singularities. The composition of the reports, produced by the narrative, will be configured from the perspective of Paul Ricoeur's theory of reporting (1976), also called entanglement, which aims to organize the diversity of events presented in the narrative, synthesize heterogeneity, and give meaning to the narrated facts.