MEMORIES OF A TELLING AND A HEARING: THE ORAL NARRATIVE OF THE OLDER OF THE QUILOMBO ÁGUA PRETA DE CIMA-MG AS A INSTRUMENT OF AFFIRMATION OF BLACK QUILOMBOLA BEWARE
Keywords: constant bodies; community writing; belonging and memory; quilombola community Água Preta de Cima.
The present research intends to reflect on the oral narratives of the elders of the Quilombola Community Água Preta de Cima-MG, examining the memory work that engenders them as a legacy of a tradition. It is understood in this work that the constant bodies are aligned to the fabrics of the community's time as guardians of the knowledge belonging to the quilombo. Oral narratives have the power to produce experiences from other experiences, from other moments and from other lives, with knowledge that crosses the limits of the imagination of each person or people. In this sense, this study seeks to highlight, record and dialogue with the teachings that are sewn in the oral narratives of the elders in order to trace the path of belonging in the quilombo Água Preta de Cima. In this direction, the aim is to apprehend their life narratives, which can be considered as community writing, and how telling and listening move away from a simple pragmatic gesture of communication and acquire a performative dimension, linked, in turn, to , to the wisdom and ancestral black quilombola heritage of the community itself. The information woven from the encounters with the constant bodies will serve as a contribution to the production of the documentary “Memories of a tell and a listen: Grafias e Romarias”, in which we seek to understand, from a poetic and belonging perspective, the memories of faith of the quilombo, having as main starting point the narratives that involve the memories and teachings of Seu Dódó, an important leader for the history of the community. What these people have to say about their crossings prayed and or bathed by the waters above is an invitation to delve into the ways of life, expressions, languages, ways of being and existing, learning, dreams, expectations of the quilombo, as of someone who tells and who listens. The study dialogues with the teachings of the elders of the community and, as a theoretical basis, is mainly supported by Bâ (2010), Bosi (2004), Evaristo (2017), Hall (2007), Halbwachs (1990), Benjamim (1986), Machado (2019), Nascimento (2018) and Martins (2003).