Letter of discovery of Brazil: bodies, sexuality and power

This essay, starting from the description of the indigenous in the letter of discovery of Brazil of Pero Vaz de Caminha (1500), tries to define the clear tensions in the relationship between the first seafarers went to Brazil and the local population.It will be defined the relationship with the otherness, starting from the bodies, in their double function: they are at the same time filter (the eye of the colonizer) and filtered (the bodies of the colonized). It will be analyzed the way the sensorial perception can contribute to the construction of the representation of the world.  The description of the bodies and the perception of them, that the Portuguese writer will give though his own senses, will be the basis to observe the relation of the power and the tensions between colonizers and colonized, tensions that will persist in the future Brazilian society. Finally starting from the production of desire that this bodies excite and from the relationship between genders, will be speculated the function of sexuality in the society and the way the the power tries control it for its strengthness and establishment. The perception of the body will be also the reason to analyze the representation that the Portuguese writer will give of the otherness as being or as existing being.  

Interspeech and identity on discourse about letter of country music manner Ferreirinha

This article has a purpose to study the interspeech on discourse about letter of country music. Since the beginning, we emphasize that, although there is interdependence between letter and melody, according Tatit (1996), we will privilege the discourse about letter. It is grounded by the contribution methodological - theorist of speech analysis, more specifically about the postulate enunciation-discursive from Maingueneau (2008), we start from presupposition about the interspeech, which has a strait relation with the discursive memory, shows features about the enunciator identity. Like object focus of analysis, we select the letter named Ferreirinha, who is considered a classical to be one of the most remembered and known by the people. It was made at the 50´s decade, this speech has a very strong representation, mainly at the Midwest and Southeast region from Brazil, they´re considered the crib of the culture from the hayseed man. The result shows us that the interspeech includes discourses that compound the discursive memory from rural migrant, showing their discursive identity.

Classic and Historical Backlands in Elomar Figueira Mello

The literary-musical production of Elomar Figueira Mello is marked by the ubiquity of the theme of backland. The analysis of the letters of the songs from the album Na quadrada das águas perdidas, disc recorded by Elomar in 1978, allows us to distinguish, in such compositions, three meanings, or three “levels” of backland: a “classic” or “ideal” backland, which is based in Elomar’s conviction of the existence, in a indeterminate past, of an interior territory inhabited by people who guided his actions based on feelings of justice, dignity, honor, nobility and courage; a “historical-geographical hinterland”, that emerges from the references made by the composer to places and characters – singers, drovers, men of the hinterland – of the Sertão da Ressaca, southwest of Bahia region; and, at last, a “deep backland” or “internal backland”, the backland resulting of artistic creation, hinterland that is constructed by the specific aesthetic and poetic work of the composer. This paper seeks to address, in more detailed form, through examination of the letter of song Canto de guerreiro mongoió, the Elomar’s representations of historical and geographical hinterland where the composer is included as an individual and as an artist - the Sertão da Ressaca.