BETWEEN HISTORY AND MEMORY: DIVERSITY, THE BODY AND POLITICAL (RE)SIGNIFICATION

Abstract

This work is theoretically based on Pecheuxtian Discourse Analysis and on Brazilian authors who have deepened the concepts employed here. In addition, we also mobilized assumptions from Michel Foucault. Our analytical corpus consists of two image-texts that circulated in the mainstream media during Lula's third presidential inauguration in January 2023. The cut-out material signals the process of (re)signification of subjects who were, in a way, silenced and socially erased, but who return with their bodies, present in the order of the symbolic, Brazilians who were excluded from social practices and constituted power. The question that guided this text was how do bodies constitute themselves in (dis)course and establish the effects of meanings that a new era is being announced? To this purpose, we sought to discuss the discursive functioning of the body as a signifying materiality, as a document, as memory and as power, establishing relationships.