O efeito "chapéu de Clementis": imagens do sujeito imigrante italiano na Quarta Colônia

Abstract

The present work, entitled The Clementis Hat Effect: images of the Italian immigrant subject, has as main objective to consider the memory of the Italian Immigration in the Quarta Colônia through another discursive materiality, the monuments in honor to the immigrants, built from the 50th anniversary of their immigration. Considering these discourses, produced in determined socio-historical moments and in specific production conditions, we view identify possible taking of positions of this subject who sees in/through language, symbolic materiality, pass his question of belonging - or not to a new nation. We part from the metaphor constructed and analyzed by Jean-Jacques Courtine in which Clementis hat refers to memory that can be showed, but can also be erased and still return. In the permanency or not of a memory, power relations are established, ideological issues of the conflicts between symbolic and political, when the iron, wooden and wind languages articulate, acting as invisible barriers in the relation of the subject with the State. Therefore, we propose a sand language in which the memory of immigration remains, though fragmented and dispersed. In this way, through the analysis of the characterized subject position in relation to history and memory - which we denominate Clementis Hat we can identify: the utopia subject position when this subject is moved by the dream of the promised land, that is interrupted because of the immigration conditions; the cleavage subject position, when this subject abdicates their mother tongue and with/because of it, also their history; and the political subject position, where the subject negotiates his place with the State. Our theoretical-analytical movement is the anchor in the Discourse Analysis of French foundation and Brazilian continuity, which has its place in linguistics, historical materialism and psychoanalysis. It is with these fundamentals that we insert ourselves in the linguistic studies, in the line of research Language, Subject and History , where the subject, the discourse and the constitution of meaning is thought.