Just as memory pervades our everyday lives, it pervades the lives of the characters and readers of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Acts of recall or recollection occur in almost every chapter as the characters in these novels devote much of the present to keeping in touch with some aspect of the past. Memory is integral to Harry Potter and His Dark Materials, highlighting the following problematic questions: Who are we and how do we relate to the past? How is what we wish for the future grounded in the past and the present? Memory is at the core of constructivism, the active construction of reality by the individual through the use of mental activity. In this thesis I maintain that the central protagonists in Harry Potter and His Dark Materials, Harry Potter and Lyra Belacqua, actively construct their "selves" from memories and narratives – their own and those of others – just as the novels' readers negotiate their own identities in the world outside of the novels. The constant recalling of the past to confirm and amply one's present creates a complex web of remembering and forgetting, assimilating and discarding, which we attempt to explicate through the use of culturally appropriate metaphors. The thesis comprises three chapters that correlate memory with genre, narrative, and technology respectively. I commence the thesis by exploring the idea of genre as collective memory. I position Harry Potter and His Dark Materials within the genre of heroic fantasy and examine how the monomyth provides readers with the memory triggers they require to decode the structure of these texts. The novels conform to and yet manipulate the preconceived patterns present in the heroic or "high" fantasy genre, where narrative, memory and identity are all linked by the desires of the stories' participants. Chapter Two applies Freud's concept of Nachtraglichkeit, which supposes the process of memory is one of incessant reconsideration or "retranslation", the reworking of memory traces in the light of later knowledge and experience. This conceptualisation of memory is compared to the common, but less productive, tendency to describe memory through objectifying metaphors, such as the idea that memory works analogously to a photograph. Chapter Three addresses how knowledge and experience in Harry Potter and His Dark Materials are furnished by prosthetic memory devices, such as photographs, the Pensieve, the alethiometer and the Amber Spyglass, “that permit us to transcend "raw" biological limits – for example, the limits on memory capacity or limits on our auditory range” (Bruner, Acts of Meaning 34). The novel's protagonists are then armed with these devices in trying to make sense of the landscapes they inhabit. Ultimately, we are all story-tellers (for better or for worse), weaving our self-narratives from material gleaned from the collective memories and prosthetic memory devices of the society we belong to, our own experiences, and the tales of others, trying to achieve the uniformity of consciousness and an awareness of the connection between the actions and events of the past, and the experience of the present, which are fundamental to a sense of individual identity.

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It addresses the following themes: information; dialogical relation of Information Science, Museology and Semiotics, Memory and Collective Identity, Culture Heritage Material; Typologies Museum, emphasizing the Houses-Museum, museum exhibitions and Informational Practices in museological context. The research is the permanent exhibition at the Casa of José Américo Museum, located in the city of João Pessoa - PB, whose collection represents the life and work of writer and politician José Américo. It is used as a research method to Semiotic Analysis. To collect data we used the technique of direct observation and qualitative non - participatory and non-directed and informal interviews with museologist who planned and assembled the exhibition of the Museum CJA. It is concluded that exposure can be studied as a museum and field research object, understanding it as a space for dissemination of information, representing the social and cultural role of the museum. Understanding how memory representation (DIEHL, 2002) one can see that Semiotics, both as theory and as a research method, is the theory that underlies this representational process, since it is given both in the context of materiality - sign object, sign vehicle - as in the immateriality - interpretant sign. Therefore, the analysis of informational phenomena, focusing on the collective cultural memory, pervades the relationship with the semiotic analysis, through which you can build methodological models for the study of information as memory support. Understand the museums as producers of information and construction of representations from fragments of reality represented there in the material culture expressed in the exhibits is to see the museum as a place of production of meaning. / A Ciência da Informação e a Museologia apresentam abertura para o diálogo disciplinar. Ambas as áreas interessam-se pelas exposições museológicas (LOUREIRO, LOUREIRO, SILVA, 2008; MORAES, 2008) compreendidas como o principal veículo de criação de significação social do museu. Essa dissertação objetiva analisar a narrativa expositiva do Museu Casa de José Américo (CJA) a partir da caracterização da formação e o funcionamento das suas estruturas expositivas, enquanto práticas de informação, caracterizando-se como uma análise descritiva, de caráter também exploratório, de abordagem delineada como um estudo de campo (Gil, 2006). Aborda as temáticas: Informação; relação dialógica Ciência da Informação, Museologia e Semiótica; Memória e Identidade Coletiva; Patrimônio Cultura Material; Tipologias de Museu, enfatizando as Casas-Museus; Exposições Museológicas e Práticas Informacionais em contexto museológico. O universo da pesquisa é a exposição permanente do Museu Casa de José Américo, localizado na cidade de João Pessoa - PB, cujo acervo representa a vida e obra do escritor e político José Américo. É utilizada como método de pesquisa a Análise Semiótica. Para a coleta de dados foi utilizada a técnica da observação qualitativa direta e não participativa e a entrevista não dirigida e informal com a museóloga que planejou e montou a exposição do Museu CJA. Conclui-se que a exposição museológica pode ser estudada como campo e objeto de pesquisa, compreendendo-a como um espaço de divulgação da informação, representando o papel social e cultural do museu. Compreendendo a Memória como representação (DIEHL, 2002) é possível perceber que a Semiótica, tanto enquanto teoria quanto como método de pesquisa, é a teoria que fundamenta esse processo representacional, uma vez que esta se dar tanto no contexto da materialidade - signo objeto, signo veículo quanto na imaterialidade signo interpretante. Portanto, a análise dos fenômenos informacionais, com foco na memória cultural coletiva, perpassa pela relação com a análise semiótica, através da qual é possível construir modelos metodológicos para o estudo da informação enquanto suporte da memória. Compreender as instituições museológicas como produtoras de informação e construtoras de representações através de fragmentos da realidade ali representados na cultura material expressa nos objetos expostos é perceber o museu como espaço de produção de significação.

Submitted by NATACHA KAJIMOTO null (kajimotofunai@hotmail.com) on 2016-05-30T22:58:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao final.pdf: 1826550 bytes, checksum: d1781b876c7bcc6860dae8c2e334ef84 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-05-31T19:39:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 kajimoto_n_me_mar.pdf: 1826550 bytes, checksum: d1781b876c7bcc6860dae8c2e334ef84 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-31T19:39:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 kajimoto_n_me_mar.pdf: 1826550 bytes, checksum: d1781b876c7bcc6860dae8c2e334ef84 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Os primeiros japoneses chegaram a Marília em 1926 e, já em 1930, foi fundada a primeira associação japonesa nessa cidade, o Nikkey Clube de Marília. Em 1945, outra associação foi fundada, a Associação Esportiva e Cultural Okinawa de Marília (AECOM). Essas duas associações trouxeram contribuições essenciais para a disseminação da cultura japonesa e para a construção da identidade dos imigrantes em Marília e região. Nesse âmbito, esta pesquisa objetiva analisar como se deu o desenvolvimento dessas associações, em relação à cultura informacional, à memória e à identidade japonesa, uma vez que não foram identificados estudos sobre essa contribuição para a referida comunidade e para os brasileiros que vivem em Marília. Portanto, estuda-se o papel dessas associações na construção da identidade e da cultura japonesa em Marília, a partir dos relatos e da memória de seus participantes e dos documentos que constituem seus acervos. A pesquisa contempla uma abordagem qualitativa, de natureza exploratória, usando como procedimentos metodológicos a pesquisa bibliográfica e História Oral, além do estudo dos documentos que fazem parte do acervo histórico do Nikkey Clube de Marília e da Associação Esportiva e Cultural Okinawa de Marília (AECOM), que constituem o universo de pesquisa deste trabalho. Como resultado, apresentamos as motivações identificadas durante a pesquisa para a criação e manutenção das referidas associações no que se refere a cultura informacional que se desenvolveu a partir do relacionamento de imigrantes, seus descendentes e a comunidade local. / The first Japanese arrived in Marilia in 1926, and already in 1930, was founded the first Japanese association in this city, the Nikkei club Marilia. In 1945, another association was founded, the Sports and Cultural Association Okinawa Marilia (AECOM). These two associations brought essential contributions to the spread of Japanese culture and the construction of identity of immigrants in Marilia and region. In this context, this research aims to analyze how has the development of these associations, in relation to the information culture, memory and the Japanese identity, since they were not identified studies on this contribution to that community and to Brazilians living in Marilia. Therefore, studying the role of these associations in the construction of identity and Japanese culture in Marilia, from the reports and the memory of its participants and the documents that make up their collections. The research includes a qualitative approach, exploratory, using as methodological procedures to literature and oral history and the study of the documents that are part of the historical collection of the Nikkei club Marilia and Sports Association and Cultural Okinawa Marilia (AECOM) which constitute the universe for this work. As a result, we present the motivations identified during the research for the creation and maintenance of the association regarding the information culture that developed from immigrants relationship, their descendants and the local community.

The master thesis "The creation and reproduction of historical consciousness on the example of the association Radecký Praha" deals with the historical consciousness, its creation and reproduction. The theoretical part defines not only historical consciousness but also pays attention to the related issues, such as collective memory, historical memory, sites of memory, or national identity, due to the fact that the boundaries between collective memory and historical consciousness are often at least unclear. Theoretical part is primarily based on the works of Maurice Halbwachs, Jan Assmann, Miroslav Hroch and Pierre Nora. The empirical part of this study concludes the research of the association Radetzky Prague, which seeks to return the monument of Marshal Radetzky on the Malostranské náměstí. The research tries to describe and understand the ways of creation and reproduction of historical consciousness of its members throughout the analysis of qualitative interviews. Mentioned authors already provide a certain methodological background research. Conclusion contains a summary and a comparison of research results with theses of authors that are dealing with similar themes. This work is not a purely historical or sociological one; it is trying to stay somewhere between historical and sociological...

This diploma thesis focuses on the role of the American Civil War memory in the American society today. It examines this phenomenon through the perception of American Civil War reenactors. The thesis analyses their opinions on the current issues that are linked to the history of this conflict - the omnipresence of the Confederate monuments and the Confederate battle flag in the American public space. It also explores the subject of the Southern identity, the role of the Confederacy in its formation and whether the ideas of the Confederacy are still present in the South today. It is necessary to understand the Southern mentality and how it is perceived by the rest of the United States, because the individual characteristics of the Southern identity are reflected in the current debates on the Confederate heritage. An idea that interconnects the individual chapters of the thesis is that the American Civil War memory is strongly influenced by the Lost Cause ideology and the overall mythologization of the conflict. While the Civil War reenactors' main motivation is to educate society about the conflict, their opinions are also mostly supportive of the romantic perception of the Confederacy.

The thesis has the ambition to follow the origin and first years of the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters and its entry into the public space of Benešov. The research focuses in more detail on the formation of the memory of the citizens of Benešov on the anti-Nazi resistance, in the process of which the SPB played an obvious role. In addition to this federal activity, the work will follow the institutional development of the organization; what kind of people led the union, who could join, which areas of social life were influenced. This thesis maps the period from 1945, when the Second World War ended, when the associations and organizations associating the inhabitants of Czechoslovakia, which participated in the anti-Nazi resistance, until 1969, which determined the restructuring of the association. Key words Union of anti-fascist fighters, second resistence, Benešov, public space, memory policy, identity

A presente pesquisa visa a construir uma biografia histórico-intelectual do folclorista, militante tradicionalista e escritor sul-rio-grandense Luiz Carlos Barbosa Lessa (1929-2002). O objetivo do trabalho é analisar sua trajetória intelectual e sua obra para acessar o processo de construção/atualização das representações sociais sobre a figura do gaúcho pampiano e a elaboração de projetos coletivos de identidade regional e de “invenção de tradições” nela baseados, desenvolvidos, principalmente, na segunda metade do século XX. Apresento, primeiramente, algumas considerações sobre o “tripé” teórico que baliza a análise: o conceito de representação, segundo as considerações de Pierre Bourdieu e Roger Chartier, fundamenta a forma de ler a construção social da realidade; a noção de tradição, a partir da avaliação da proposta de Eric Hobsbawm, ilumina o papel dos símbolos e dos ritos neste processo; o termo projeto, seguindo a formulação de Gilberto Velho, liga vida e obra, trajetória e teoria, política e identidade. As conclusões mostram que as respostas de Barbosa Lessa, nos anos 1950, para as críticas da geração “realista” de escritores regionalistas à literatura romântica precedente conciliam ambas as posições no desenho do novo “gaúcho a cavalo”, possibilitando, de um lado, o “resgate” do mito como base para a reivindicação do amparo social governamental ao campesino rio-grandense e, de outro, o apelo ao “popular” como foco da ritualização efetivada nos palcos dos Centros de Tradições Gaúchas (CTGs). Em sua intervenção no debate identitário local, Barbosa Lessa incorpora outros sujeitos em sua narrativa sobre a formação social do Rio Grande do Sul e dá voz àqueles grupos calados ou marginalizados, como o negro, a mulher (inventada como “prenda”, na ética e na estética tradicionalista), o índio e o imigrante. Se o gaúcho pampiano continua sendo o centro de suas atenções, ele acaba costurado e reconfigurado por elementos culturais de origem social e mesmo étnica diversa. Nos final dos anos 1970, inicia-se uma tensão, nas diretrizes da Secretaria de Cultura, Desporto e Turismo do Estado (SCDT), sob direção de nosso personagem, e, a seguir, em seus escritos, entre essa perspectiva agregadora, de inspiração folclorista, e outra tradicional e “lusitanista”, de inspiração historiográfica. Sua resolução, em favor do primeiro pólo, só se dá com a intervenção de Lessa nos debates internos do tradicionalismo e na defesa do gauchismo em geral das críticas acadêmicas, nos anos 1980. Busco, nesse sentido, atentar para as especificidades do discurso memorialista, que possibilitaram enunciações carregadas de afetividade na conciliação de tradicionalistas com os dissidentes nativistas e na contenda com os intelectuais universitários. Assim, de um Rio Grande luso e brasileiro "agauchado" pelo meio, chegamos, em seu projeto, a outro Rio Grande plenamente "gaúcho" porque cindido pela diversidade e pela mudança. / This work aims to construct an intellectual biography of the folclorist, tradicionalist movement‟s activist and writer Luiz Carlos Barbosa Lessa (1929-2002). It is our objective to analyze his trajectory and his written production to access the process of construction of the social representations about the brazilian gaucho and the collective projects of regional identity and “invention of traditions” in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) during the second half of the twentieth century. First of all, I introduce some theoretical considerations about: a) the social construction of reality through the concept of “representation”, according to Pierre Bourdieu and Roger Chartier; b) the role of symbols and rituals in this process through Eric Hobsbawm‟s notion of “invention of tradition”; c) the connection between life and literature, trajectory and theory, politics and identity provide by Gilberto Velho‟s concept of “project”. The findings show Barbosa Lessa‟s answers to the contests in regionalist literature during the 1940‟s harmonize romantic and realistic positions to fabricate a new pattern of “gaucho on horseback”. His perspective enables the use of this myth to reclaim State social support to the “rio-grandense” peasant. To the other side, it allows the popular appeal in the construction of symbols and rituals for the gaucho traditionalist movement. In his intervention in the regional identity debate, Barbosa Lessa adds, in his narrative about the social formation of Rio Grande do Sul, another subjects and groups symbolically marginalized, like African element, women (invented as “prenda”) and immigrants. Whether the gaucho continues in the center of attention of Lessa, his new model is set of cultural elements with diverse social, and including ethnic, origin. In the late 1970‟s, a tension starts, in the guidelines of the Rio Grande do Sul‟s State Secretary of Culture, under his direction, and, later, in his writings, between this open perspective, inspired in folklore, and another more traditional, inspired in historiography. The resolution in favor of the first pole of the tension just happens when Barbosa Lessa intermediates the internal dispute in traditionalist movement and defends the “gauchismo”, in general, criticized by a new generation of university intellectuals, in the 1980‟s. So, I intend to show the specificities of the memorials‟ discourse that enable emotional enunciations in the reconcilement of traditionalist activists and the dissidence “nativista” and, either, in his controversy with academic professors. Thus, the image of “Rio Grande do Sul” changes from a Portuguese and Brazilian State turned gaucho by the characteristics of the environment to another absolutely gaucho because of his cultural variety and transformation condition.

A presente pesquisa visa a construir uma biografia histórico-intelectual do folclorista, militante tradicionalista e escritor sul-rio-grandense Luiz Carlos Barbosa Lessa (1929-2002). O objetivo do trabalho é analisar sua trajetória intelectual e sua obra para acessar o processo de construção/atualização das representações sociais sobre a figura do gaúcho pampiano e a elaboração de projetos coletivos de identidade regional e de “invenção de tradições” nela baseados, desenvolvidos, principalmente, na segunda metade do século XX. Apresento, primeiramente, algumas considerações sobre o “tripé” teórico que baliza a análise: o conceito de representação, segundo as considerações de Pierre Bourdieu e Roger Chartier, fundamenta a forma de ler a construção social da realidade; a noção de tradição, a partir da avaliação da proposta de Eric Hobsbawm, ilumina o papel dos símbolos e dos ritos neste processo; o termo projeto, seguindo a formulação de Gilberto Velho, liga vida e obra, trajetória e teoria, política e identidade. As conclusões mostram que as respostas de Barbosa Lessa, nos anos 1950, para as críticas da geração “realista” de escritores regionalistas à literatura romântica precedente conciliam ambas as posições no desenho do novo “gaúcho a cavalo”, possibilitando, de um lado, o “resgate” do mito como base para a reivindicação do amparo social governamental ao campesino rio-grandense e, de outro, o apelo ao “popular” como foco da ritualização efetivada nos palcos dos Centros de Tradições Gaúchas (CTGs). Em sua intervenção no debate identitário local, Barbosa Lessa incorpora outros sujeitos em sua narrativa sobre a formação social do Rio Grande do Sul e dá voz àqueles grupos calados ou marginalizados, como o negro, a mulher (inventada como “prenda”, na ética e na estética tradicionalista), o índio e o imigrante. Se o gaúcho pampiano continua sendo o centro de suas atenções, ele acaba costurado e reconfigurado por elementos culturais de origem social e mesmo étnica diversa. Nos final dos anos 1970, inicia-se uma tensão, nas diretrizes da Secretaria de Cultura, Desporto e Turismo do Estado (SCDT), sob direção de nosso personagem, e, a seguir, em seus escritos, entre essa perspectiva agregadora, de inspiração folclorista, e outra tradicional e “lusitanista”, de inspiração historiográfica. Sua resolução, em favor do primeiro pólo, só se dá com a intervenção de Lessa nos debates internos do tradicionalismo e na defesa do gauchismo em geral das críticas acadêmicas, nos anos 1980. Busco, nesse sentido, atentar para as especificidades do discurso memorialista, que possibilitaram enunciações carregadas de afetividade na conciliação de tradicionalistas com os dissidentes nativistas e na contenda com os intelectuais universitários. Assim, de um Rio Grande luso e brasileiro "agauchado" pelo meio, chegamos, em seu projeto, a outro Rio Grande plenamente "gaúcho" porque cindido pela diversidade e pela mudança. / This work aims to construct an intellectual biography of the folclorist, tradicionalist movement‟s activist and writer Luiz Carlos Barbosa Lessa (1929-2002). It is our objective to analyze his trajectory and his written production to access the process of construction of the social representations about the brazilian gaucho and the collective projects of regional identity and “invention of traditions” in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) during the second half of the twentieth century. First of all, I introduce some theoretical considerations about: a) the social construction of reality through the concept of “representation”, according to Pierre Bourdieu and Roger Chartier; b) the role of symbols and rituals in this process through Eric Hobsbawm‟s notion of “invention of tradition”; c) the connection between life and literature, trajectory and theory, politics and identity provide by Gilberto Velho‟s concept of “project”. The findings show Barbosa Lessa‟s answers to the contests in regionalist literature during the 1940‟s harmonize romantic and realistic positions to fabricate a new pattern of “gaucho on horseback”. His perspective enables the use of this myth to reclaim State social support to the “rio-grandense” peasant. To the other side, it allows the popular appeal in the construction of symbols and rituals for the gaucho traditionalist movement. In his intervention in the regional identity debate, Barbosa Lessa adds, in his narrative about the social formation of Rio Grande do Sul, another subjects and groups symbolically marginalized, like African element, women (invented as “prenda”) and immigrants. Whether the gaucho continues in the center of attention of Lessa, his new model is set of cultural elements with diverse social, and including ethnic, origin. In the late 1970‟s, a tension starts, in the guidelines of the Rio Grande do Sul‟s State Secretary of Culture, under his direction, and, later, in his writings, between this open perspective, inspired in folklore, and another more traditional, inspired in historiography. The resolution in favor of the first pole of the tension just happens when Barbosa Lessa intermediates the internal dispute in traditionalist movement and defends the “gauchismo”, in general, criticized by a new generation of university intellectuals, in the 1980‟s. So, I intend to show the specificities of the memorials‟ discourse that enable emotional enunciations in the reconcilement of traditionalist activists and the dissidence “nativista” and, either, in his controversy with academic professors. Thus, the image of “Rio Grande do Sul” changes from a Portuguese and Brazilian State turned gaucho by the characteristics of the environment to another absolutely gaucho because of his cultural variety and transformation condition.

A presente pesquisa visa a construir uma biografia histórico-intelectual do folclorista, militante tradicionalista e escritor sul-rio-grandense Luiz Carlos Barbosa Lessa (1929-2002). O objetivo do trabalho é analisar sua trajetória intelectual e sua obra para acessar o processo de construção/atualização das representações sociais sobre a figura do gaúcho pampiano e a elaboração de projetos coletivos de identidade regional e de “invenção de tradições” nela baseados, desenvolvidos, principalmente, na segunda metade do século XX. Apresento, primeiramente, algumas considerações sobre o “tripé” teórico que baliza a análise: o conceito de representação, segundo as considerações de Pierre Bourdieu e Roger Chartier, fundamenta a forma de ler a construção social da realidade; a noção de tradição, a partir da avaliação da proposta de Eric Hobsbawm, ilumina o papel dos símbolos e dos ritos neste processo; o termo projeto, seguindo a formulação de Gilberto Velho, liga vida e obra, trajetória e teoria, política e identidade. As conclusões mostram que as respostas de Barbosa Lessa, nos anos 1950, para as críticas da geração “realista” de escritores regionalistas à literatura romântica precedente conciliam ambas as posições no desenho do novo “gaúcho a cavalo”, possibilitando, de um lado, o “resgate” do mito como base para a reivindicação do amparo social governamental ao campesino rio-grandense e, de outro, o apelo ao “popular” como foco da ritualização efetivada nos palcos dos Centros de Tradições Gaúchas (CTGs). Em sua intervenção no debate identitário local, Barbosa Lessa incorpora outros sujeitos em sua narrativa sobre a formação social do Rio Grande do Sul e dá voz àqueles grupos calados ou marginalizados, como o negro, a mulher (inventada como “prenda”, na ética e na estética tradicionalista), o índio e o imigrante. Se o gaúcho pampiano continua sendo o centro de suas atenções, ele acaba costurado e reconfigurado por elementos culturais de origem social e mesmo étnica diversa. Nos final dos anos 1970, inicia-se uma tensão, nas diretrizes da Secretaria de Cultura, Desporto e Turismo do Estado (SCDT), sob direção de nosso personagem, e, a seguir, em seus escritos, entre essa perspectiva agregadora, de inspiração folclorista, e outra tradicional e “lusitanista”, de inspiração historiográfica. Sua resolução, em favor do primeiro pólo, só se dá com a intervenção de Lessa nos debates internos do tradicionalismo e na defesa do gauchismo em geral das críticas acadêmicas, nos anos 1980. Busco, nesse sentido, atentar para as especificidades do discurso memorialista, que possibilitaram enunciações carregadas de afetividade na conciliação de tradicionalistas com os dissidentes nativistas e na contenda com os intelectuais universitários. Assim, de um Rio Grande luso e brasileiro "agauchado" pelo meio, chegamos, em seu projeto, a outro Rio Grande plenamente "gaúcho" porque cindido pela diversidade e pela mudança. / This work aims to construct an intellectual biography of the folclorist, tradicionalist movement‟s activist and writer Luiz Carlos Barbosa Lessa (1929-2002). It is our objective to analyze his trajectory and his written production to access the process of construction of the social representations about the brazilian gaucho and the collective projects of regional identity and “invention of traditions” in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) during the second half of the twentieth century. First of all, I introduce some theoretical considerations about: a) the social construction of reality through the concept of “representation”, according to Pierre Bourdieu and Roger Chartier; b) the role of symbols and rituals in this process through Eric Hobsbawm‟s notion of “invention of tradition”; c) the connection between life and literature, trajectory and theory, politics and identity provide by Gilberto Velho‟s concept of “project”. The findings show Barbosa Lessa‟s answers to the contests in regionalist literature during the 1940‟s harmonize romantic and realistic positions to fabricate a new pattern of “gaucho on horseback”. His perspective enables the use of this myth to reclaim State social support to the “rio-grandense” peasant. To the other side, it allows the popular appeal in the construction of symbols and rituals for the gaucho traditionalist movement. In his intervention in the regional identity debate, Barbosa Lessa adds, in his narrative about the social formation of Rio Grande do Sul, another subjects and groups symbolically marginalized, like African element, women (invented as “prenda”) and immigrants. Whether the gaucho continues in the center of attention of Lessa, his new model is set of cultural elements with diverse social, and including ethnic, origin. In the late 1970‟s, a tension starts, in the guidelines of the Rio Grande do Sul‟s State Secretary of Culture, under his direction, and, later, in his writings, between this open perspective, inspired in folklore, and another more traditional, inspired in historiography. The resolution in favor of the first pole of the tension just happens when Barbosa Lessa intermediates the internal dispute in traditionalist movement and defends the “gauchismo”, in general, criticized by a new generation of university intellectuals, in the 1980‟s. So, I intend to show the specificities of the memorials‟ discourse that enable emotional enunciations in the reconcilement of traditionalist activists and the dissidence “nativista” and, either, in his controversy with academic professors. Thus, the image of “Rio Grande do Sul” changes from a Portuguese and Brazilian State turned gaucho by the characteristics of the environment to another absolutely gaucho because of his cultural variety and transformation condition.

Mgr. Klára Soukupová Autobiography in the Context of the Positioning Theory Abstract This doctoral thesis is a theoretical and an interpretative study that deals with the genre of autobiography, its position in the contemporary literary theory and problems related to an interpretation of autobiographical texts. Autobiography as a genre of non-fictional literature refers to real characters and events, but at the same time it is a literary work of art, a verbal construct in which the representation of reality is subject to the intentions of the author and to the rules of construction, that are close to the compositional techniques of fictional texts. The first part of the thesis concentrates on the theory of autobiography and its interdisciplinary context. It summarizes the development of theory of autobiography from the late 19th century to the present. Also, the concepts of the memory studies (especially the concept of collective memory) and the problem of distinguishing fiction and non-fiction (discussed in philosophy of history in 1970s and 1980s, fictional worlds theory, pragmatics of fiction, etc.) are taken into account. The theoretical chapter critically reflects P. Lejeune's definition of autobiography, based on the concept of the autobiographical pact. In relation with the problem of how to define...