A ORDEM DISCURSIVA NA CIDADE DOS LOUCOS E DAS ROSAS

Abstract

The present article aims to analyse how the meanings and the memory of the statements "City of roses" and "City of lunatics" move, confront and integrate themselves into the discursive order of Barbacena. The town, which served as the stage for the creation of the Colony Hospital, where thousands of people were interned, has also become famous for its cultivation of  roses. As a result, the city was nicknamed with both adjectives. To achieve the objective of this research, a corpus of five current photographs of the city  was selected , divided from the identification of the discursive sequences to which they belong. The analysis is theoretically and methodologically grounded in the Materialist Discourse Analysis, mainly in the contributions of Orlandi (1999, 2003, 2007ª, 2007b, 2014), regarding the analysis of how cities produce meanings, and Lagazzi (2015), in the understanding that images are signifying materialities. The work allows the identification of a silencing of the "City of lunatics" meanings, whose circulation happens, more expressively, in the margins of the city. On the other hand, in the centre, it is sought, systematically, to highlight the sequence "City of Roses". Nevertheless, although there is silence, the two meanings coexist, moving and integrating the city’s discoursive order.