A transição dos discursos nas histórias do super-homem: discursos, verdades e poder nas histórias do herói dos quadrinhos

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Edwendell Lima da
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6181
• topic: Super-Homem; Formações discursivas; Sociedade; Poder; Superman; Discursive formations; Society; Power; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

In the view of Michel Foucault, the discourse can be understood as any set of statements that are in regularity with each other, while sharing the same production of meanings and being inserted in the same discursive formation. Any form of language that takes place in an act of oral, pictorial or written communication will disseminate discourses, and those discourses are associated to the socio historical context in which the discursive materiality is produced. Thus, since the stories of the fictional character Superman are discursive production, they reflect the relations of power and games of truth that exist in the society where they are produced. In this paper, we analyzed a corpus formed by stories of the fictional character Superman taking as reference knowledge of the discipline Discourse Analysis (DA) and the principles of proliferation and appropriation of the discourses, as proposed by Foucault, as well as the notions of games of truth and relations of power in a foucaultian perspective. Through such stories were disseminated discourses that were voiced in the United States in times marked by historical changes in the relations of power. We show, through our analyses, that these stories of Superman, although originally inserted in a discursive formation of resistance to the power exercised by the ruling class, moved into a discursive formation that aligns discourses in support of the political and ideological positions of the U.S state, which reflect the attitude of America towards its own people and the world. The investigation of how did this process of transition of the discourses of Superman happened took us to the conclusion that any discursive production, even a seemingly innocuous as the stories of a comic book hero, is a strategic element in the struggle for power between antagonistic social classes.