Elos da memória: o discurso dos avós sobre a cultura

Abstract

This study has the objective of analyzing, through elderly s memories and memory literary, the cultural manifestations present in the ties of grandparents and grandchildren. For that, to prioritize three text where the narrator remembers its life. It was taken excerpts from literatures that represent the memory work about grandparents and the relation of the memory with culture and family. The writings were: Solo de Clarineta from Érico Verissimo, Menino de Engenho from José Lins do Rego and Infância from Graciliano Ramos. Was made a qualitative research, in what it was set the content analysis of narrative interviews of elderly grandparents that remembered of their grandparents and grandchildren. From this analysis, five categories and subcategories were made that synthesize the content of the speeches: the first category is called: Places to be together and it has a subcategory called: Pictures of the places; the second is called: The role of the grandparents and it has the subcategory Protection means; the third is called Cultural features and its subcategories are: Grandparents knowledge and Religion practices; the fourth category is called Belonging feeling and it has the subcategories Origin history and Differences and marks, finally the fifth category, that is called Life recognition and it has the ideas of limits and possibilities. This dialogue between the interviewed and the literary narratives could make it to be understood dynamically the collective memory in the family tie and to discuss the importance of grandparents as cultural representants.