Coherence and Awareness among Young People from Quilombo do Areal

Abstract

The objective of this study is to identify and assess coherence in the narratives produced by young residents of quilombo, who participated in an intervention study that aimed to empower them to deal with negative experiences in a positive way. A focus group intervention method was applied with 10 young individuals aged from 14 to 18 years who lived in Areal Quilombo in Porto Alegre, RS. They were asked to produce autobiographical or fictitious stories that pictured the daily life of a young resident of a quilombo. Eight narratives were recorded and filmed with the theme racial prejudice and discrimination. The stories' global coherence was assessed, and the presence of the Other in the I also investigated. Among the most meaningful results is that there is a change in the attitude toward racial prejudice when the prejudiced victim takes action in favor of this change and the self's property of being a multiplicity instead of a unity is confirmed.As Linde (1993) so well puts it, the narrative of life not only reveals the story of its author, but also the details of his personality, way of thinking and seeing the world, and social and psycho-pathological situation. Mishler (2002) highlights the role of the narrative act in the reassignment of meaning to past events:

Identidade narrativa e bem-estar em jovens em situação de vulnerabilidade

“…Os jovens adotados tardiamente que tinham experienciado situação de Research, Society andDevelopment, v. 10, n. 15, e371101522095, 2021 (CC BY 4.0) | ISSN 2525-3409 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v10i15.22095 10 negligência ou maus tratos por parte dos pais biológicos, bem como aqueles que tinham enfrentado alguma forma de enfermidade ao longo do processo de desenvolvimento, narraram sua história de vida tendo como referência o evento traumático. Esta quebra na organização cronológica da estrutura narrativa é indício da presença de um afeto potencialmente desorganizador da personalidade, oriundo de uma questão pessoal não resolvida (Gedrat, Vieira & Schubert, 2019;Henriques, Vieira & Gedrat, 2021). É destacar esta questão não resolvida a partir da leitura de Jung (1984) da Poética de Aristóteles: ela passa a ser entendida como um nó narrativo que necessita ser desatado e como um complexo de tonalidade afetiva a ser conscientizado e resolvido.…”