Medias’ sliding: text memory, history book and life history narratives in Ingrid, uma história de exílios

Abstract

We investigate how memories move from one media to another, starting, in chronological order, from the memory text (i.e. manuscripts and oral testimony) by Ingrid Koster and ending with the text of the book, Ingrid, uma história de exílios, published in 2010. We checked out the adjustments, the omissions and the additions made in the construction of memory texts in this book, comparing them in different medias. We demonstrate that memories and their medias, which are increasingly sliding one over other, are crossed by imagined and documented additions and by deletions of emotional and political nature. Edward Said’s “exiles”, Lucia Santaella’s “media culture” and “slips”, Beatriz Sarlo’s “memory” and “witness” and Walter Benjamin’s “narrative and healing” give theoretical support to the analysis.