Management of silence as control and resistance in Xambioá -TO

Abstract

The Guerrilha do Araguaia became known as one of the cruelest episodes of the Brazilian civil military dictatorship. It was responsible for numerous violations of human rights, which had repercussions for the life of the residents of the region and, specifically, of Xambioá-TO. Thus, the objective is to demonstrate the use of silence management as a way of overcoming suffering, on the one hand, and as a state device to control the social memory of people who have experienced the various violence perpetrated by the State, on the other hand. For that, we worked with content analysis of two interviews with peasant victims of the process. It came to the conclusion that, despite the control strategies of official narratives, people still manage to manage
their stories, allowing, from time to time, the memories of the margin to meet the official ones.