Reminiscências da professora Clemilde Torres Pereira da Silva: sua contribuição às instituições-memória da Paraíba (1942-2013)

Abstract

This paper investigated the career and contributions of the educator, archivist and writer Clemilde Torres Pereira da Silva to the memory-institutions of Paraíba. This is the unveiling of the narratives and the stories remembered and resignified by the educator about her performance in the context of memory-institutions of Paraíba. To this end, we investigated her career paths from 1942, a period starting with the beginning of her studies in the city of Bananeiras (PB), through 2013, in which she was working as Director of Afonso Pereira Archive, founded by herself in 1998, in the city of João Pessoa (PB). Categorized in the field of theoretical and methodological approach of the New Cultural History and guided by the premises of Oral History, this study aimed to unveil, through thematic interviews, the reminiscences of Clemilde Torres about her family origins, her education and her early works as an archivist. Here we described the engagement of the educator as archivist in the spaces in which she worked and the consolidation of her professional career in the memory-institutions of Paraiba, especially Afonso Pereira da Silva Archive. The study revealed that the educator performed a contributive educative action to society and to education, as she produced and made available information through documents of different ages. Finally, we highlighted her contribution as a writer of historical narratives that facilitate the reconstruction of the past, shedding light to the educational practice of Clemilde Pereira in memory preservation spaces.