Trauma narratives in local journalism: the Samarco dam rupture in Mariana

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the narrative strategies employed by Mariana’s experimental journalism to build a trauma narrative in the newspaper Lampião. The aim is to understand how the vehicle materializes the experience of Fundão dam rupture, belonging to Samarco, in Mariana (MG), traumatic event of local communities, through its narration, understanding contemporary journalism as mean and possibility for it. At the same time, the research aims to problematize such building strategy of the catastrophic event in newspapers. We worked through the text on the newspaper’s pages with the contribution of psychoanalytic approaches about trauma and journalism studies about the coverage of risks and disasters, anchored on content analysis.