Diaries of Maria Isabel Silveira: trace and inscription of a voice

ABSTRACT

This article presents the investigation made from the set of diaries belonging to Maria Isabel Silveira, wife of the writer Valdomiro Silveira, whose personal collection was donated to the IEB/USP in 2006. Amid the documents, currently under the custody of the IEB Archive, stands out 62 notebooks by Maria Isabel that adopts diary writing as a record of her family’s daily life, especially her children, and later, of her daily life. The present study deals with documentary materiality, feminine writing and women’s memory, having as corpus the diaries of Maria Isabel, a woman who with rigor and discipline, wrote about herself, and, consequently, about her time.

KEYWORDS:
Diary; memory; narratives; Maria Isabel Silveira; women’s history; feminine writing