Os processos históricos de reafricanização e desafricanização no discurso sobre Zé Pilintra

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the discourse functioning on Zé Pelintra, “entity” of umbandist religion, considering the articulation of meanings related to the processes of “desafricanization” and “reafricanization” of Negro in Brazil. For this, it is used a theoretical framework of French Discourse Analysis approach, an interpretative science that deals with issues related to the socio-historical process of meanings production. The relationships among these movements are analyzed by observing discursive practices, linked to processes of designation, present in the selected clippings, referring them to the discursive memory. The intra and interdiscursive mechanisms therein involved allow to highlight contradictory aspects in the constitution of that character, producing different effects of meaning.