“Queridos Paes”: uma história da escrita epistolar no oeste catarinense através das cartas de Elza Bertaso à sua família

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the process of production and archiving of letters Elza Bertaso sent to their families during their internal schooling period in the College of Nossa Senhora do Bom Conselho in Porto Alegre - RS, in the years from 1915 to 1918. Daughter of a family owner of an important company responsible for the colonization of the Oeste of Santa Catarina region, Elza was raised from the expectations of the emerging elite of that period. However, in much of his childhood and youth he lived away from their families, in that his education took place in boarding schools, so the epistolary pact takes great importance to the formation of the girl and maintaining its links with family. Recently these correspondences became public when they were donated along with other family papers and colonizing company for CEOM. Here our aim is to start the questioning of these letters, taking them in his own historicity, their production processes, archiving and later monumentalization. We aim to demonstrate that express these documents in its material elements of an intimate written while the standardization processes that go through education and internalization of civilization modes.