“COMO MODESS VOCÊ ME TROCOU”

A FRAGILE SUBJECT’S DISCURSIVE POSITION IN A MAMONAS ASSASSINAS’ LYRICS

Abstract

This paper focuses on tracking an analysis along the lines of the French Discourse Analysis on a lyric composed in the 1990s by the band Mamonas Assassinas. The title of the composition is lá vem o alemão, a parody of a romantic pagode of title lá vem o negão. The analysis corpus is populated by statements that question the regimes of truth about affective relationships, such as the idea of ideal love, as opposed to the financial interests involved. An analysis follows the archegenic methodological principle, mainly in the studies of Michel Foucault, with the concepts of subject, discourse, discursive formation, discursive practice and power-knowledge device that are mobilized. It is an essential component in this analysis to understand how humor works as a mechanism, that serves for the sense effects and to resist a power of truths placed on the subjects. Produce an analysis of these statements is similar to the temporality-locality of the speeches presents there and to problematize as conditions of possibility that allow their reproduction.