ELIANE BRUM’S LITERARY JOURNALISM

study of meanings and voices in the columns of the site El País Brasil

Abstract

This article aims to understand how the journalist and writer Eliane Brum, using literary journalism techniques, includes voices other than her own in her opinion articles published on the website of the newspaper El País Brasil. Literary journalism proposes a narrative structure close to that of literature, while still using the methods of traditional journalism. It offers conditions to establish a strong bond with the reader through the reporter's accurate eye. The study aims to analyze, based on seven characteristics of literary journalism (accuracy, humanization, thematic universalization, own style, immersion, creativity and ethical responsibility), which are the voices present in the journalist's texts. We used the French Discourse Analysis (AD) to achieve the proposed objective, examining two articles. The selection of the texts, from different periods, was due to the fact that they deal with different themes and have explicit voices present. As a result of the analysis, we noticed that the journalist brings to her texts two preponderant types of voices that represent specific discourses: the Voice of the Oppressed, which normally does not appear in traditional journalism, and the Voice of the Oppressor, precisely to oppose points of view and carry her journalistic opinionated discourse of credibility. We also identified a Neutral Voice (of specialists) and we noticed that Eliane Brum always puts herself on the side of the Voice of the Oppressed.