A Minust e a alteridade: representações e identidades haitianas nos discursos da ONU e da Folha de São Paulo (2004-2010)

• Autor(a) principal: VASCONCELOS, Alex Donizete
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2292
• topic: Haiti; MINUSTAH; Identidades; Representações; Discurso; Alteridade; 1.Haiti-intervenção 2.Revolução haitiana(1791) 3.Haiti-independência 4.Identidades; Haiti; MINUSTAH; Identities; Representations; Discourse; Otherness; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The conquest of the New World that had begun around late fifteenth century left no doubts regarding its purposes. At that point, in a clash between civilization and barbarism there had been started one of the most tragic chapters of history. Colonization, a bizarre spectacle, which had no precedents, started from the little island of Hispaniola, which at the end of the eighteenth century was introduced to the world as the Pearl of the Antilles, it was one of, if not the most, prosperous colonies of the French metropolis. Haiti, a country of black people, of voodoo, and of revolution, emerges in history as the country of order subversion, of chaos and black terror, a stain on the civilization history. The rupture between colony and its metropolis, raised by the Haitian Revolution in 1791, became a watershed, an apart chapter in the Americas history. The outcomes of this, which was the only revolution carried out by slaves and that was able to overturn the order and to bring the independency of a country, are still visible today, however regretful. Toussaint L´Ouverture´s country would be harshly punished for its insolence. Haiti remained almost the whole nineteenth century in a political and economic ostracism for, in the twentieth century become the stage of successive interventions and the interference of countries which it has been tragically committed: France and USA. In the late of twentieth century and beginning of twenty first century, those interventions now legitimated by international organizations, such as UN, and OAS, become, effectively, part of the Haitian scenario. It is from those interventions, namely the last, which is represented by MINUSTAH, that we think Haiti in this paper. Making use of the documentation the UN and Folha de São Paulo produced and through a discourse that is, above all, an element of otherness, we will seek to reveal how the Haitian representation and identity are forged.