Santa Rosa da linha e da cor: o passado presente por meio da escrita autobiográfica

Abstract

Stemming from the autobiographic repertoire of Tomás Santa Rosa Júnior, it is possible to give new meaning to his personal memories and experiences, as well as the social and political context of his time, which is part of the collective memory. It is analyzed his technical and artistic printed production, as a revealing space of his autobiographic memory, through the self-writing. By mapping this production, it asks about the autobiographic memory as self-writing, present in the letters from Santa Rosa to José Simeão Leal, constructing a life trajectory. It still focuses on the production of book covers of José Lins do Rego associated with other documents. The qualitative approach of documental type is used through the detailed examination of documents, bringing new possibilities to understand the object of study. The set of the analyzed documents encompasses the letters from Tomás Santa Rosa to José Simeão Leal, of the Personal Private File of José Simeão Leal, of the Núcleo de Documentação e Informação Histórica Regional (NDIHR/UFPB), as well as the covers of the first editions of the romances written by José Lins do Rego of the Library of the José Lins do Rego Museum, at the Espaço Cultural, in João Pessoa, Paraíba, illustrated and interpreted by Santa Rosa. The autobiographic memory, through the self-writing, of Santa Rosa, transpires the personality of the man, rich in talent and fruitful in works, constructing raw material with high social and aesthetic value to our memories.