Life Narratives of peasant Daiane da Silva and her daily struggles for survival

Abstract

Francisca Daiane da Silva Costa is a peasant woman from the city of Jaguaruana, in the interior of Ceará, who lives in the resistance community on Gregório Bezerra land, in the rural area of the city. Daiane is the main subject of this article; she is simultaneously the source, focus, and consequence. To contextualize Daiane's life and listen to her, the biographical method was used based on life narrative interviews as a resource to understand how a particular social/cultural/political phenomenon acts/has acted on the life of a specific individual and what their experiences are due to this phenomenon. In the case of this article, a peasant woman and the experiences arising from her belonging to this working class. As partial results, it was observed how Daiane views her life through the lens of rural nomadism, finding the various changes she had to make throughout her history, from childhood to adulthood, as the guiding thread of her life, in search of survival and a minimum of dignity to live.