Lembranças de jardim: as configurações da memória no conto “Maria Perigosa” de Luís Jardim

Abstract

This research aimed at reflecting on the memory configurations present in the short story "Maria Perigosa", published in eponymous book, by the writer from the state of Pernambuco, Luís Jardim (1981), and how the literary narrative worked as a subsidy to reveal social and cultural traits of the Brazilian agreste, especially the city of Garanhuns-PE. To do so, the work was carried out through a critical analysis of the corpus, supported by the New History theories regarding the studies of the collective memory by Halbwachs (2004) and the concept of place of memory, by Pierre Nora (1993); the studies of Chartier (1990) and Pesavento (2006); sumed by the contributions of the Literary Theory by Candido (2006), related to discourse on memory and society; and the historical studies by Ricoeur (1997) and Paul Veyne (1998), when they discuss the narrative perspective of historical texts. As results, we verify that the short story in evidence manifests itself as an anchor of memories that, through its fictional narrative, presents part of Garanhuese society identity and its social and cultural manifestations, as well as enables the reader who shares the same collective memories develop their symbolic representations, capable of demarcating borders and reinforcing identities, as well as prolonging experiences and perpetuating the work.