Abstract
This paper focuses on memories as social appearance and resistance to the compulsory erasure and suffocation of mourning. The analyzes refer to narratives that, reserved for their differences and singularities, bring lives and stories whose barbarities, appearing in the political life of the present, emerge as ways of excavating history and life in their totalitarian and developmental perspective. These narratives are: memories of dictatorship and exile, which resist to social erasure, bringing to the public scene the experience of mourning; and memories of childhoods dissident to heteronormativity and marked by violence aligned with this norm, whose writing makes socially appear what cannot exist.
Keywords
memories; totalitarianism; gender violence