DISCURSO, MEMÓRIA E HISTÓRIA

FUNCIONAMENTOS DA ESTRELA AMARELA NO HOLOCAUSTO

Abstract

The discussions in this article focus on the yellow star during the war, analyzed from the text-image captured on the virtual page of the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires. The research question that supports this article is: how, through the yellow star, are the effects of the imaginary construction of Jewish subjects marked/segregated by the Nazis constituted? The image-text is an indivisible totality that is structured by image-enunciations (Venturini, 2009, 2022, 2024), from which paraphrastic systems are formed. Our aim is to analyze the conditions of production for the creation and operation of the Holocaust Museum in Argentina, so the title is, in a way, a path to follow in order to answer the research question, which is based on history, through documents, and is therefore different from fiction. We propose to revisit the Second World War as a discourse that takes place within certain conditions of production, focusing strictly on the Holocaust and, in a larger sense, on the socio-historical conditions and memories that resonate from this event. We are affiliated with Michel Pêcheux's Discourse Analysis because, from this perspective, history means historicity, resulting from the relationship between exteriority/anteriority and the functioning of representations of thought in discursive processes.