Chiquinha Gonzaga (1847-1935): das disputas narrativas à dissolução da memória

Abstract

Reflections about Chiquinha Gonzaga (1847-1935), one of the most relevant characters in the musical history of her period, through a critical reading of five narrative works written about her during different decades of the 20th century. After reading the idiosyncrasies of each text and its authors, namely: Mariza Lira (1978), Geysa Boscoli (w. d.); Edinha Diniz (1999); Dalva Lazaroni (1999) and Maria Adelaide Amaral (2006), we see the construction less of the historical character and her significant musical trajectory than of the projections that each time saw fit to establish on her unique and important figure. Using the concepts of Akotirene (2019), Butler (2019) and Kilomba (2019) as a theoretical apparatus, it is understood that the narrative action, overlapped by different layers of oppression, bequeathed to posterity a product or memory of specific effects, in a reduced reality marked by underrepresentation in relation to Brazilian music and history.