Memórias, traumas e segredos diante da persistência da supressão: etnografia entre familiares do desaparecido político Jayme Miranda durante a Ditadura Militar em Alagoas

Abstract

The family members of Jayme Miranda, a Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) activist who disappeared during the country's military dictatorship (1964-1985), are the focus of this dissertation. The aim is to understand how they elaborate their own memories of disappearance, as well as how trauma, silencing and secrets influence domestic/family memory. From the perspective of microhistory and the History of the Present, the aim is to show the people surveyed as interlocutors-witnesses of the recent past, henceforth particularizing their experiences in line with the dynamics of the family group under study. To this end, a narrative ethnography was undertaken, combining the in-depth interview method (open-ended) with the snowball technique and participant observation. The textualization went through the processes of subtraction, retextualization and omission of names when necessary. Twelve interlocutors from different generations of the Miranda family were interviewed. The research also relied on supporting material, namely: documentaries, magazines, books, films, photographs, the final report of the National Truth Commission, and the partial and final reports of the State Truth Commission. Organized into narrative subsections, it was up to narrative ethnography to represent the memories of the interlocutors, shaping their subjectivities when they narrated themselves in the field. I thus explored how the notions of family, militancy and subjectivity permeate the disputes over local and national, and above all, family memories of the disappearance.