Cartografias identitárias do Assu: a construção de uma terra de história, poesia e tradição.

Abstract

This work aims at an assuense space construction while a history, poetry, and tradition land, and concurrently, the composition of an imaging-discursive practice which is necessary to the action about Assú City, that is lied in Rio Grande do Norte wilderness. It is questioned here about the "lines" that naturally delineate the well-articulated cartography around a history almost epic and a poetic vocation, considered like traditional. It is about the study which it intends to contribute to the relations knowledge among discourse, identity, History, and space related to the historical knowledge. From the discourse analyses theoretical references by Foucault, who sees the language as pragmatic, action promoting, also responsible for knowledge and power spaces invention. It works here through the archeological/genealogical method by Foucault, in which the writing and pictures are analyzed as statement and, accordingly as discursive event. In this way, it is done the discursive coatings decomposition that were sedimented by poems, images, hymns, journalistic topics, academic discourses, memories writing, and so on. This discourse accumulation built the assuense spatial identity construction based on the conceptions of "old and traditional" city, "green carnaubais land", "poets city" and "Norte-Rio-Grandense Athens". Therefore, this study finds out the strategic operation of an archetypical space constitution in the potiguar cultural view between the 1920s and 1990s, allowing the making of questions about the history and poetry that invest in the discourse positivity of assuense "tradition".