“Água de lona” e “sangue de serragem” nos discursos de sujeitos circenses: o caso brasileiro

Abstract

This article aims to show how discourses about social identity of circus are constructed and askes about the truths that discourses seek to produce and legitimite . It is based on a field survey with 31 traveling circuses. We are based in Woodward (2005), Souza e Carrieri (2012) in the analysis of identity as a result, the act of creating linguistic, cultural and social product; Foucault (1969; 1975; 1976; 1984a; 1984b; 2003; 2004; 2010) in the understanding of identities as products of power relations. We adopt the perspective of Souza and Carrieri (2012) of approach individual and collective identities in the discursive practices. Analysis was performed via Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) with Fairclough (1992). Two major semantic paths were identified, the circus origin and tradition, explaining the circus behalf to distinguish from others by genealogical elements like “sawdust blood” and mode of existence as in “water bag”. The recognition of circuses everyday practices and the discursive statements that are usually reframed, allows us to understand how these organizations have been reproduced in the contemporary time and space.