Abstract

DE SOUZA, Elizeu Clementino. “What will tomorrow be?” Narratives, pandemic and life-death interfaces. Espac. blanco, Ser. indagaciones [online]. 2021, vol.31, n.2, pp.351-364. ISSN 1515-9485.  http://dx.doi.org/10.37177/unicen/eb31-307.

The text seeks to discuss meanings, trivializations and precariousness of life, focusing on the systematization of the epistemic-methodological dimensions of (auto) biographical research, its relationships with COVID-19 and the life-death configurations inscribed in the contemporary scenario. The question that mobilizes the text arises from the reflections on what is a life? What lives are precarious and can be wasted? What is life or death in the face of pain? The corpus of analysis is configured in the narratives of relatives and friends of people who died of COVID-19 in Brazil, published in Memorial Innumerable. By taking the narratives written by relatives or friends of people who die from the virus, we seek to analyze the representations about the pandemic, how it spreads in Brazil, the relationships between life and death and the challenges posed for the investigation (auto) biographical in this context of democratic and necropolitical crisis.

Keywords : (auto)biographical research; COVID-19; ne- cropolitics; life-death; mourning.