DISCURSO, REPRESENTATIVIDADE E RESISTÊNCIA INDÍGENAS

AILTON KRENAK E RAONI METUKTIRE NO DOCUMENTÁRIO FALAS DA TERRA

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the discourse of Ailton Krenak and tribal chief Raoni Metuktire in the audiovisual production Earth talks, which allow us to highlight the veil of invisibility of indigenous voices through testimonies from native representatives from all over Brazil. This research is subsidized by the theoretical contribution of Foucaultian Discursive Studies (1988, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2013a, 2013b, 2019). We worked with Foucault's archeogenealogical method, which makes it possible to approach the historical and social conditions regarding the production and circulation of these discourses, intertwined in the web of knowledge-power and self-practices. In this investigation, the concept of discourse is taken as “a regular set of linguistic facts at a certain level and polemic and strategic on the other”  FOUCAULT, p. 9, 2013a). The corpus consists of excerpts from the documentary Earth Talks, which problematizes the history of Brazilian colonization, to demystify narratives consolidated in social memory, that generate prejudices and stereotypes about original peoples. This study questions the indigenous subjects legitimized to speak in today's society. The speeches of indigenous leaders Krenak and Raoni highlight socio-historical movements of indigenous resistance, anchored in power-knowledge relations and a historical-political confrontation, traversed by legal devices. They realize that only through the mobilization of legal guarantees can indigenous groups achieve some safeguard. Furthermore, their struggles and resistance are daily and permanent.