Abstract

MAGALDI, Felipe. Mother of guerrillas, guerrilla mother: gender, generation and politics in two testimonies of Carmela Pezzuti about the Brazilian civic-military dictatorship. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2023, vol.16, n.2, pp.289-302.  Epub Aug 31, 2023. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v16.n2.39563.

This article addresses the relationship between gender, generation and politics in the construction of the memory of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). In order to do so, it takes two testimonies from Carmela Pezzuti (1926-2009), a civil servant from Minas Gerais, who began to be a member of the armed struggle together with her sons, Angelo and Murilo, in the 1960s. The research analyses different moments of inscription of her memories after the experiences of imprisonment and torture: a) in the first session of the Russell II Tribunal, held in Rome in the 1970s, during her exile in Italy; b) in the book “Companheira Carmela”, by Mauricio Paiva, published in the 1990s. If, in the first case, the symbolic protagonism of mothers was not expressed as an integral part of the political task itself, there is a change of emphasis in the second, after the debates that combined feminism and human rights in the fight for amnesty.

Keywords : Gender; Generation; Politics; Russell II Tribunal; Testimonial Literature.

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