A caverna, de José Saramago: lugar de enfrentamento entre o sujeito e o poder

• Autor(a) principal: Assunção, Karina Luiza de Freitas
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFU
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/15377
• topic: Discurso; Sujeito; Subjetividade; Memória; Análise do discurso; Saramago, José, 1922- Crítica e interpretação; Discourse; Subject; Subjectivity; Memory; Discourse analysis; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

Having in perspective the proficuous research field in the area of Linguistic Studies, the French Discourse Analysis was elected for the making of this project, using the Foucaultian Studies about power and subjectivity as reference. Thus, this project has the objective of analyzing the novel A Caverna (2000) (The Cavern), by José Saramago; more specifically, the constitution of the discursive subject Cipriano Algor is analyzed, paying close attention to the relation of power established between him and the Shopping Center . The proposed general objective of this project is to discuss how the discursive subject Cipriano Algor fits into this relation of power. In order to better establish a cutout so as to do our study, two specific objectives are enhanced: a) to analyze the relation of power as a means of subjectivation of the subject (Cipriano Algor), mapping out how this relation is built throughout the book; b) to show how the discourses which emerge in Cipriano make the constitution of his subjectivity possible and differ from the standards held as normal at the time. Based on the matter of the subject and how the relations of power, shown by the discourses, corroborate to their constitution, the hypotheses that the discursive subject Cipriano Algor constitutes his subjectivity starting from the relation of power which is created between him and the Shopping Center will be defended. Another detail which is shown is that in Cipriano Algor s discourses, elements that come from other enunciative spaces come up, to be more specific, the biblical and philosophical discourses. In our analysis, we observe that the subject of Modernity suffers changes because of fights and arguments which integrate his everyday life. These conflicts are permeated by power, which is present in all relations, forming a web that diffuses it into all social levels. Hence, identities are not fixed, having what Stuart Hall (2005) calls structural change , which consists in the destabilization of the image that the subject has of himself, aspect which is verified in Cipriano Algor, as a discursive subject.