Memories of the military dictatorship in journalism: Matrices of meaning in narratives about children victims of torture

Authors

  • Marta Regina Maia Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
  • Thales Vilela Lelo Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2014.161.01

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to reflect about narratives that recall the memory of the military dictatorship in Brazil through a corpus of stories that circulated in journalistic vehicles in 2013. These productions focused on children who suffered, albeit indirectly, torture promoted by representing regime officials. Analyzing the interviewees’ discourse in this news, it is possible to apprehend how journalism builds a common semantics that aligns a set of different experiences in the same matrix of meaning. This array is aligned, on the other hand, with the installation of the National Truth Commission in Brazil and manifests itself in two ways in these news: as a set of personal tragedies that did not build public memory, but marked collectively the history of the nation; and as sufferings that left deep lesions in the life course of the afflicted.

Keywords: military dictatorship, memory, journalism.

Author Biographies

Marta Regina Maia, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Professora Adjunta III do Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Jornalismo e Serviço Social, da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Atualmente faz Residência Pós-doutoral no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2013-2014).

Thales Vilela Lelo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Mestrando em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) na linha “Processos Comunicativos e Práticas Sociais”. Graduado em Jornalismo pela Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP). Integrante do Grupo de Pesquisa “Jornalismo, Narrativas e Linguagens” (CNPq).

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Published

2013-09-30

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2014): January/April

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