A resistência nos discursos femininos da campanha da anistia em Sergipe (1978-1988)

Abstract

The present work consists of an analysis of the speeches of Sergipe women who worked in the campaign of amnesty in the Brazilian military dictatorship, from 1978 to 1988. Our interest was to verify, in these discourses, evidence and forms of resistance to repression and torture To which they were submitted, as well as evidence of their contributions to Sergipe and Brazilian politics, in the redemocratization and development of the country. It was also important to identify the role of Sergipe women in questioning the feminine condition of the time and to defend women's freedom in their speeches. As a theoretical contribution, we take into account the studies of French Speech Discourse Analysis, which have the main theoretician Michel Pêcheux (1997), and followers such as Eni Orlandi (2007; 2012), as well as the historical sources of Ibarê Dantas (2014) and Napolitano (2014) on the History of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil and in Sergipe. Given our object of study and the theories that support it, we chose, for this work, the methodology of qualitative research. Our corpus is composed of interviews with women who worked in the Amnesty Campaign in Sergipe; Newspaper articles circulated during the period proposed for analysis and testimonies given by the State Truth Commission. In order to carry out the analyzes, we selected discursive sequences that revealed to us that, at a time when intense censorship dictated what could be said, women did not back down and took over one of the most important popular movements in the country's history. This non-silencing is marked by demonstrations of resistance, whose goal was the release of political prisoners and exiles. It is, therefore, based on the struggles and the social role that these women exerted in the society in the time of dictatorship that this research justifies its importance. As a conclusion, we find that women's resistance and struggle contributed to the enactment of the Amnesty Law in 1979 (Law 6,683) and to the country's redemocratization. Other fruits of this movement were the creation of the Municipal Council for Women's Condition and the Women's Police Station in Sergipe, both in 1988, which lead us to understand that we still benefit from this planting started in 1978.