Não estávamos nus: a formação identitária dos Brasis no espaço discursivo da colonização

Abstract

In this paper we seek to analyse the cultural and discursive confluences involved in the identity formation of subjects in society, in order to understand the establishment of the power relationship between cultures from the colonisation process in Brazil. The guiding question of this work is undertaken in the affirmation that the identity formation of the subjects involved in the colonisation process in Brazil can be investigated discursively. In view of this proposition, the work aims at understanding how the colonisation in Brazil boosted the identity formation of the subjects, and how the cultures relate to each other in this discursive space. The theoretical framework of this research relies on studies on culture and identity from the theoretical principles postulated by Hall (2000), Silva (2000), Laraia (2001, 2006), Santos (2017). To discuss the identity formation of the Portuguese coloniser in Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter, we used the concepts present in Maingueneau's (2008) studies on global semantics. The research corpus is composed of fragments of Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter, and fragments of the Baniwa peoples' text, produced by Professor Dr. Gersem José dos Santos Luciano to work with the constitutive planes of the global semantics in the decoloniality movement. The methodological procedures guiding the analysis qualify our research as descriptive, with a bibliographical and documental base and a qualitative approach.