ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS OF BRAZIL (AJEB)

A place in the history and memory of women's writing

Abstract

The present article aims to find fragments in the memories of the writers and journalists of the Association of Journalists and Writers of Brazil (AJEB),that help to answer in which way the association contributed for its members to conquer their space in the Brazilian feminine writing; and to investigate their affective memories in relation to the association and the members. Through the state of the art research we noticed the lack of studies related to the memory of women's literature in the researched period. As a methodological procedure we used the oral history of three writers associated to AJEB and a bibliographical research with a qualitative approach. The theoretical contributions were based on studies about memory - Maurice Halbwachs (1990), Michael Pollak (1989), João Carlos Tedesco (2014), Pierre Nora (1993); emotions and affections - Le Breton (2009); and women and literature - Zahidé Lupinacci Muzart (2004), Constância Lima Duarte (2018) and Nelly Novaes Coellho (2002). This study is relevant insofar as the memories of these women are important to contribute to the construction of the history of Brazilian women's writing, establish a female literary tradition and break the cycle of invisibility, in which many of them are inserted.