Spanish flu: interconnected streams of memory and polishing reminiscences

Authors

  • Marialva Carlos Barbosa Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Comunicação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Cultura. Rio de Janeiro, RJ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8875-7128

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i4.2105

Keywords:

Spanish fl, Autoethnography, Memory, Newspapers and magazines, Rio de Janeiro.

Abstract

Through the autoethnography, in which the researcher’s experience is interrelated with the empirical scenario that she or he analyzes, the article reveals how the interconnected streams of memory are articulated in communicational acts, taking into account a contemporary traumatic event. The Covid-19 pandemic gives rise to reminiscences of a past that survived because of the narratives of another event, he 1918 inflenza pandemic (Spanish fl), in the childhood memories of the one who nowadays makes the gesture of telling that story. Moreover, the article presents aspects of journalistic coverage then carried out in Rio de Janeiro by the main newspapers and magazines, which also produce narratives guided by the interconnected streams of memory logic.

Author Biography

Marialva Carlos Barbosa, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Comunicação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Cultura. Rio de Janeiro, RJ

Doutorado em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense.

Published

2020-12-17

How to Cite

Barbosa, M. C. (2020). Spanish flu: interconnected streams of memory and polishing reminiscences. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i4.2105

Issue

Section

Communication, health and global crisis dossier