Constituição de autoria em narrativas de viajantes: entre o sujeito e a designação.

Abstract

In this research we aim to analyze the building of authorship as a category in travelers’ stories whom have been to Brazil between XVI and XIX centuries. Being authorship an effort the subject does discursively, organizing such expressive resources in the way to singularize himself in a certain domain – from the possibilities that discursive formation offers, by delimiting an action space despite social, historical coercions in which he is submitted (POSSENTI, 2002; BAPTISTA, 2005; RIBEIRO, 2006) –, there has been chosen for authorship analysis in travelers stories tree categories which allowed the research, namely: the story structure, the linguistics marcs that revealed the authorship work and the discursive memory. The methodological path shows the criterions we used to selection, organization and constitution of a timeline for the stories, composed by one text related to each century from the time profile we did. Next, the results point that authorship in travelers stories is built when the narrator works with linguistic resources which evidence individual and institutional structures simultaneously, for they identify the storyteller as the written text author and they define a collateral and mediate authorship in which the presence of the designator authorship focus. Those resources converge to the production of a story that is characterized, mainly, for the expansions catalytic and indexing (BARTHES, 2006), which, being defined the subject’s historical-ideological status, result in strongly evaluative character descriptions. Ultimately, the authorship in these stories is also configured in the construction of a diachronic memory about Brazil, which serves to discourses previously produced, showing a re-signification process, translated in gestures that individualize the work of the language subject