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This paper aims to conduct a thematic and comparative analysis after the concepts of landscape, space, place and memory in six texts by Vitorino Nemésio and Cecília Meireles in which the Atlantic islands of the Azores archipelago are represented. In these texts, the landscape is a manifestation of the authors'ontological topography, resulting in a subjective construction process that re-signifies the places of the islands. In common, these texts have the themes of the islanders' life simplicity, isolation and poverty. If these traits bring them close, others separate them. In Nemésio, the islands are transfigured into a tourist landscape and migration space, reflecting the substance and the constraints of Azoreanness. In contrast, in Cecília, the island is a place in the frontier of the real and the imaginary, constructed by the poet's fantasy, emotional geography and childhood memories. In Nemésio, the texts manifest images of individual and collective memory, whereas, in Cecília, the work of memory facilitates an escape from reality and a journey to the realisation of the lost paradise myth: the Island of Nanja. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The process of recovering the historical memory in biographical and autobiographical writtings is no longer restricted to an exclusive field of research. Authors such as Georges Bataille, John Hersey and Beatriz Sarlo scrutinize the correlations between History and memory in the literature, evaluating ethical matters and issues of social nature. In the light of this studies, this paper comments some excerpts of Assombrações do Recife Velho (1955), work of the sociologist Gilberto Freyre and Baú de ossos (1972), first volume of Pedro Nava's memoirs. The objective is to expose how fictional and historical elements are articulated in both works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Luiz de France was one of the most significant masters of maracatu nation, addressed and articulated maracatu Crowned Lion Nation, from 1950´s until his death in 1997. Even today his memory is claimed by groups of "maracatus" existing in Recife. Such question indicates different aspects in the processes of building memories, and how these are used at present. This article aimed to discuss and analyze the performance of Luiz de France, as well as daily strategies from the memories of "maracatuzeiros Pernambucanos". Understanding the memory as the result of historical processes, it was also objective of this work to analyze the different ways the memory is constructed, bringing up issues of theoretical-epistemological order about black culture, "maracatus" and "maracatuzeiros recifenses". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Memories of the town of Guaíra on the Brazilian-Paraguayan border and exhibited in the Sete Quedas Museum, are analyzed and contrasted with those of other social groups, namely Indigenes and fishermen. The later discuss such issues as migration, work, environmental preservation and heritage. A variety of concepts, opinions, disputes and tensions emerges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current essay shows Parnaíba (PI) Brazil as one of the best examples of environmental heritage in Brazil. The text deals with two different manners from which the town is perceived: the environmental scenery as a whole and the scenery based on history by an interpretation of buildings that concretize the history, memory and data of the town's historical periods. The preservation of memory and the constitution of the town as a re-interpretation of the spacetime are experienced as a storehouse of environmental heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current article is a commentary on the texts that form the Round Table "Popular traditions, farmers and landless: dialogues, trajectories and changes" published in this edition by Diálogos. Commentaries have two aims: to stimulate scholars to read the texts and evaluate the importance of the theme coupled to the author's approach, and supplementing the subject matter with suggestions on possibilities for future research work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Five ambiguous ideas may be provided among the common sense notions of human memory: a single memory, defined as a strictly particular cognitive faculty whose function would be remembrance and, for this very reason, destined to represent the past whose traces would have been registered deliberately and explicitly. With these ideas in mind and based on the article by Juan Besse and Cora Escolar, by Ana Maria Sosa González and Maria Leticia Mazzucchi Ferreira and by Francisco Ramos de Farias, current article proposes a) that human beings are endowed with a variegated type of memory; b) that these memories are social; c) that their function is simultaneously the remembrance and acknowledgement of the past and its forgetfulness; d) that these memories are primarily at the service of the future; e) that they are the product of non-conscious acquisitions. The main argument engaging the discussion of the three articles is that human memory is subordinated to the loss principle. It involves selection, elimination, modification of past events under the effects of a set of cognitive, psychological and socially-limiting activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]