Memória e poder em narrativas do imaginário amazônico

Abstract

The social sciences from an early age, occupied in studying the social relations of power. Seek to understand the functioning of the regulatory systems of domination and resistance manifestations to this system boosts several studies in the academic field. This dissertation is concerned at the attempt to recognize the power relations, as mechanisms exercised capillary in particular discourse of memory, arranged in oral narratives of Pará Amazon. Located in studies of oral literature, research that is intended runs an interpretative reflection on the social construction of the imaginary, from Michel Maffesoli on collective symbolic imagery in line with Paes Loureiro, about the poetic imagination in the Amazon. To situate the conceptual discussion in memory, used to text Ecléa Bosi and Paul Ricoeur, on the relationship memory/society and memory/power, respectively. The debate about the power relations sitteth in the proposals by Michel Foucault, in defense of an analytical forms of power engendered in society to exert domination of some over others. The Amazonian myth button serve as a central pillar to develop an interpretation of these power relations, based on phallocentric paradigms aimed at the maintenance of male domination. Thus, the reading of the work is oriented in the survey as the imaginary symbolizes a relationship of power, especially phallic, and how this power reaches the memory and there is installed, and you can see them pormeio of Amazonian oral narratives.