OS SERTÕES: DISCOURSE, TRUTH AND POWER

Authors

  • ALICE BARONI
  • LEONEL AGUIAR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2012.3089

Abstract

This article sets out to interpret the construction of truth discourse in the War of Canudos, through the classic Os sertões, by Euclides da Cunha. To enrich the research, the articles wrote by Cunha, while he was a war correspondent for the Estado de São Paulo newspaper, will be analyzed, too. Along with the text, the expression “truth-effects” designed by French philosopher Michel Foucault is being used. “Effects of truth” is an expression in reference to the idea of discourses being neither true nor false. In Os sertões, the effects of truth emerge from strategic power disputes amongst the Church, landowners, politicians and a seaside ruling elite that ignores the reality of the poor and forsaken hinterlands.

Keywords: discourse, power, truth. 

Author Biographies

ALICE BARONI

Doutoranda do Departamento de Creative Industries, da Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane/Austrália. Mestre em Comunicação Social (PUC-Rio). Integrante do CCI - the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation.

LEONEL AGUIAR

Professor do Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação Social e coordenador do Curso de Comunicação Social da PUC-Rio. Doutor e Mestre em Comunicação e Cultura (UFRJ).

Published

2012-05-03

How to Cite

BARONI, A., & AGUIAR, L. (2012). OS SERTÕES: DISCOURSE, TRUTH AND POWER. POLÊM!CA, 11(2), 160 a 175. https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2012.3089

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HÍBRIDOS