The silence of narrating

Abstract

Telling, narrating, speaking, remembering... words that are part of the vocabulary of researchers who work with the Oral History methodology. This article is about the use of this methodology and the experiences we have had so far. The result of post-doctoral research that is underway in the Postgraduate Program in History, at the State University of Montes Claros/MG, Brazil, whose theme deals with women's suffrage, we sought in this specific writing to discuss the silence/ silence faced to date, by proposing interviews with the 4 councilors and a former deputy mayor of the city of Montes Claros. These attempts have mobilized our attention and our efforts, since it is extremely important at this stage of the research to listen to the women who currently hold council positions in the city. However, silence has become the keynote of the research and efforts to contact some and even the return of interviews already carried out with others are not having any effect. Therefore, in this writing, we seek to debate and analyze what has mobilized this silence/silencing, seeking to understand what motivates it, in addition to seeking to understand whether there is a possible relationship between voting, feminism and silence in the city of Montesclaro.