La Frontera selbaje: uma leitura semiótica dos aspectos barrocos e mestiços de El Astronauta Paraguayo, de Douglas Diegues

Abstract

This Master’s dissertation proposes a study of the expression and content plans from the cultural text El Astronauta Paraguayo (2012) written by the half Brazilian half Paraguayan Douglas Diegues. We have used as a support a literature review of the theories of Semiotics of Culture, Mestizaje, Neo-Baroque, the Eroticism and the Cultural Studies. We think the text written by Diegues is as a secondary modelizing system and we have investigated the Diegues proposed system to publish, in cartoneiros books, handmade produced, with texts written in Portuñol Selbaje, a mixed language, transcribed, largely by imbrication of the Portuguese, Spanish and Guarani languages. The writer talks about the border and from the geographic and historical border situated between Ponta Pora (BR) and Pedro Juan Caballero (PY), semioticizing this locus as a cultural phenomenon, producing a culture of text that expresses, through the neobaroque language a kind of evocation of eroticism as a game in which the meaning is given by experienced freedom. The legitimate representation of the individuals who inhabits the map borders and want to make people understand the meaningful reality themselves live.