Discourses and truth, and biopolitics in writings of vestibulandos: the production of black subjectivities

Authors

  • Carmen Brunelli de Moura Universidade Potiguar (UnP)
  • Edgley Freire Tavares Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN)
  • Marluce Pereira da Silva Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2018v15n2p2974

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to understand which discourses and Regimes of Truth were accepted and valued in the texts from candidates for the admittance exam from a federal institution of higher education in 2013. The theme for the text was the participation of the Negro in the current Brazilian society. Among the discursive regularities from these writings, the enunciations on public policies configured as biopolitical devices composed, the analysis corpus. This study has an analytical position based on a Foucauldian-inspired discourse theory, theorists of the field of language studies, and social theorizations about the history of the black people. We concluded the discourses of truth that cross these compositions are produced by the State and reproduced and valued by the candidates when reinforcing the effects of a positive public policy.

Author Biographies

Carmen Brunelli de Moura, Universidade Potiguar (UnP)

Doutora em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Professora da Universidade Potiguar (UnP).

Edgley Freire Tavares, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN)

Doutor em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Professor no Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), Campus Central. Membro do Grupo de Estudos do Discurso – GEDUERN/UERN.

Marluce Pereira da Silva, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

Doutora em Letras pela UNESP/ Araraquara. Professora do Mestrado Profissional em Letras PROFLETRAS/UFPB e professora colaboradora do Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Linguagem PPGEL/UFRN.

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Published

2018-07-12

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2018)

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