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Glória Anzaldúa defends the recreation of the self-history of Chicano women, which would culminate in the recreation of the cultural history of the entire group. In this perspective, Ana Castillo argues in favor of revisiting and reinterpreting traditional models imposed on Chicano women to decolonize and rethink them as sources of strength and power without this meaning the destruction of all inherited traditional values of the Amerindian ancestry and Spanish influence. Thus, the objective of this article is to rescue and at the same time rewrite the collective memory in So Far from God (1993), by Ana Castillo, through the analysis of the search for decolonialization and the reconquest of the authority and spirituality of Chicano women symbolized in the construction of the character La Loca Santa; a representation that mixes the Amerindian ancestral mother goddess Tonantzin with the Catholic mother of Spanish colonial origin Guadalupe. Thus, we will reflect on the characteristics of Tonantzin, the historiography of Guadalupe, as implications of women's religiosity in the identity of Chicano women and the development of the character that evokes these two divine mythical figures. For this, I will use the theories of Jeanette Peterson (1992), Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo (1999), Michelle Sauer (2000), Glória Anzaldúa (2012, 2015), Ana Castillo (2014), Simona Lozovski (2016), Yuderkys Miñoso (2020), among others. We conclude that La Loca Santa is conceived as a syncretic figure that builds a world outside the limits of colonial, capitalist and patriarchal domination within the house itself through a positioning that rescues at the same time that it rewrites the spiritual authority of Chicano women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to investigate the reconstruction of identity and memory of an aphrodiasporic collective through the narrative Becos da Memória, by Conceição Evaristo. Narratives that constitute themselves by black experiences in diaspora raise concepts of subjectivities that deconstruct a hegemonic and dominant narrative. Through this work, there is a possibility to explore life experiences of these subordinate individuals which claim for their voices to be heard and their narratives to be modified by the awareness of their reality. Therefore, exploring the different stories of characters is to see the significant and painful role of the diaspora in the conception of these fictional individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the change and adaptation process of miners who became agricultural settlers on the coast of Hermosillo. All of them had been unemployed because of the closure of the copper mine in Pilares, Sonora, in 1949. The methodological perspective applied instruments of social and cultural history with concepts of memory studies. It is possible to identify a fractured identity through the broken projections for the future, forcing settlers to re-elaborate their life stories. The study involved work with orality, which resulted in some limitations that had to be solved with contrast of documentary and historiographic sources. The visibility of a community with a strong presence in the social imagination of Sonora defined the originality of the study, concluding further that there is a pilgrim cultural identity that was formed outside the mining space but with symbolic elements of it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mia Couto states that "African culture is not a single one but a multicultural network in continuous construction" (COUTO, 2005, p. 79). The idea of a multiple and plural identity is related to the questions of tradition and roots of a people, with the need to "re-construct" rituals and beliefs, fundamental elements for the reconstruction of the identity of a country marked by war. The sixteen-year war with the desolation of the natural and human landscape did not provide a cultural context suitable for oral transmission. The need to rescue "the ancestral Mozambican imagery deeply rooted in orality (MARTINS, 2002), lost or forgotten, remains up-to-date and linked to the question of the definition of identity, of Mozambican cultural identity. Oral tradition helps to recycle and revive the collective memory and traditional culture of the Mozambican people, but orality alone is not enough to combat forgetfulness; it is necessary to write to reinforce and diversify the process of re-creating this tradition. Mia Couto contributes to the recovery of tradition with his stories, creating a space "between places", in which elements of modernity, through the bias of prosaic-fictional writing, are used to transform, update and invigorate the traditional cultural heritage and thus renew the process of building the collective identity of Mozambique. Through readings of Mia Couto's short narratives and novels, the intention is to explore how the author uses orality to re-construct the identity of the characters and consequent revitalization of collective cultural memory, analyzing selected texts in which identity and orality merged to portray the Mozambican identity. Reinventing or hearing forgotten voices is coloring and building the new Mozambican cultural identity, giving the anonymous people an opportunity to express themselves, to identify with and to give a life to a cultural project for a future that is always under construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades there was a boom of studies and debates dedicated to the question of memory. In this context, the "geography of memory" (Foote y Azaryahu, 2007) contributed to analyze the spatial dimensions and explore the relationships between collective memory, places and national identities. The objective of this paper is to explore the role of historical monuments with a nationalistic sense in the town of Puan (Buenos Aires), in the constitution of local identities, in this case linked to the origins of the town under the advance over the "desert". For this, the conflict around the maintenance of the "Plaza de la Patria", a public space dedicated to the commemoration of the "Desert Campaign" where the monument of the Unknown Soldier is located, will be analyzed. The dispute began in 2012 when the Municipal Government and a group of investors announced the construction of a hotel in the proximity of this historical monument. Immediately, a group of neighbors, the so called "Group Plaza de la Patria as it is" began to demonstrate against the hotel's future location, arguing that the place is important to preserve the "heroic" past of the town. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contains a reflection that arises from the teaching experience: the importance of writing in the learning process as a socializing tool, but especially as a tool for the recovery of historical memory and the eyes of the subjects as individuals and as part of the community. I decided to do the same academic and research exercises applied in the classroom and confront my teaching role, so that I can make the corrections that might be required in this process of mutual learning. In this case, the objects of study for the research were students. The aim was to make life stories with some of them, so that they could collect, from interviews, field notes, photographic records and personal documents, relevant information to write a text to present their college and personal life and, on this basis, establish a dialogue that transcends individual history. [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]

In recent Spanish biopic, stands out the cycle of films that has taken to the screen the lives of those individuals branded by dictatorship historic writing. Films like La mujer del anarquista, La buena nueva, Las treces rosas, María querida y Soldados de Salamina, can be considered as the filmic materialisation of the claim of large social segments to rehabilitate the figure of "loser". This fertile path invites to the reflection about the Spanish society needs of building a narrative of History -and his protagonists-, that be able to give sense to our present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The photograph as a document is almost always linked to memory, a visual memory that portrays, re-signifies and re-contextualizes the social action of the look. In this sense the photographer is a social actor who, among other things, intrumentalizes the look by highlighting aesthetic realities in a field of particular perception that becomes public, particularly today in a post-conventional social context. This paper reflects on this process of post-conventional change in which visual culture is situated and in which photography and memory are increasingly involved, weaving new identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes HIJOS, the human rights organization comprised of children of the victims of state terrorism in Argentina. It examines some of the distinctive characteristics of this group, particularly with regard to the ruptures and continuities with the practices of the human rights movement. It analyzes how the group emerged, shaped its collective identity, formulated its demands for justice, and tells stories about the recent past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This dissertation aims to analyze the memory related to the public teacher's strike of 1988 in the state of Paraná. To design this analysis, in first place, we selected news reports about the walkout from contemporary journals: two daily journals were studied, the Folha de Londrina and O Estado do Paraná. Together with the selection of news published in these media, we analyze the publication of teachers' representative entity - APP - called Folha do Professor. Based on discussions provided by the journals we prepared a set of interviews for the public teachers focused on their participation in the walkout. From the interviews conducted among the teachers we wrote an analysis about the memory construction of that historical event, in order to understand a possible identity formation related to that strike. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]