O doador de memórias : uma análise crítica acerca do conceito de memória histórica individual e coletiva a partir da obra de Lois Lowry.

Abstract

This research analyzes the construction of individual and collective historical memory through Lois Lowry’s The Giver, in dialogue with O History, highlighting the importance of memory as an active process of identity, resistance, and social preservation. Literature is contextualized as a privileged symbolic space, capable of questioning the manipulation of memory in dystopian societies and giving visibility to voices silenced by official history. The study is basic, qualitative, explanatory, and exploratory in nature, using bibliographical and documentary procedures, covering academic works published between 2000 and 2024. The results show that Lowry’s work serves as a critical metaphor for the risks of a society without memories, where controlling memory equals controlling freedom, while also reinforcing History as a methodology for democratizing memory. It was found that both literature and history share the role of preserving, resignifying, and questioning the past, revealing that memory is always constructed amidst symbolic disputes. The study concludes that the articulation between fiction literature and History broadens the understanding of memory as a field of power and resistance, reaffirming literature as an instrument of criticism, identity preservation, and citizenship formation.