Romance Torto Arado de Itamar Vieira Júnior: as questões agrárias sob a perspectiva da análise do discurso.

Abstract

This work analyzes the discursive functioning of the novel Torto arado, by writer Itamar Vieira Junior, from the perspective of agrarian issues. Based on Discourse Analysis (DA) of French origin and, with it, entering the literature/society interface, the main scope is the examination of the corpus formed by excerpts from the text, seeking to understand the meanings that involve the work analogous to slavery in rural areas, as well as inequality of access to land. In other words, the socio-historical conditions of production of the narrators' speeches (Bibiana, Belonísia and Santa Rita Pescadeira), as well as the other characters in the work, are investigated, identifying the marks of power relations and the ideologies that permeate the formulation of meanings about land problems. The object of analysis of this work seeks to approach the paths of qualitative research and aims to understand discursive constructions that form the imaginary of the relationship between landowners and rural workers of Afro-Brazilian origin, after the abolition of slavery in Brazil. This investigation is relevant, given the social circulation of discourses that naturalize the persistence of housing servitude and the violation of the right to land in the country. The materialization of these discourses, in Vieira Junior's text, allows, based on the basic concepts of AD, to work, with a comparison methodology, in the midst of description and interpretation, thus identifying the relationship of language to its exteriority, based on in the regularities of its production. From this perspective, the meaning effects of statements, subject positions, production conditions, slips of meaning, discursive memories, ideological formations, imaginary formations, the politics of silencing, discursive events, among others, are examined. After this analytical path, it is possible to conclude that there is an express mobility of meanings that marks the trajectory of the characters in the novel, whose movement goes from resignation in the face of social injustices, starting to a moment of understanding them, until arriving at actions to change the scenario of inequality built throughout the country's history.