O massacre de Eldorado do Carajás para além do factual: a reconstrução narrativa de uma tragédia no jornalismo literário

Abstract

The present research sought to understand how literary journalism constructs the narrative sense of conflicts by land in the Amazon, specifically the massacre of Eldorado do Carajás, tragedy occurred on April 17, 1996, that resulted in 19 workers killed and more than 60 injured in a stretch of the PA-150, called Curva do S, in the state of Pará. The fact was news in the daily newspapers of Brazil and the world, as well as in products of literary journalism, as the book-report. Therefore, this dissertation starts from issues that permeate the conflicts in the field and the in-depth approach of real cases in products of the journalistic-literary genre. Thus, we analyze the narrative construction of conflicts by land, having as corpus of analysis the book-report The Massacre: Eldorado do Carajás - A History of Impunity (2019), written by the journalist Eric Nepomuceno, strategies used in this journalistic modality and operationalized in the text. In the light of the methodological support of J.B. Thompson’s of Depth (2011), the work was taken by the socio-historical analysis, outlining the historical and social course of conflicts in the field and literary journalism; the formal or discursive in which the pragmatic analysis of the journalistic narrative was used, based on Motta (2007); and the reinterpretation/interpretation of O Massacre. The three stages were essential for the identification of the narrative resources used by the author when giving space to a violent reality that appears from time to time in the news. Nepomucene rebuilds a calamity that put an end to nineteen people and marked the lives of hundreds. It shows that this history is not only part of the past, but of the present of thousands of rural workers who live in the daily hope of having their land plot and a life without threats and deaths.