A opção pelos farrapos humanos da metrópole: um estudo sobre a Boca do Lixo (1950-1960)

Abstract

This paper has as its objective, analyze of the discursive constructions over the press about the power and sociable relations developed in the urban space inside the city of São Paulo between the 1950‘s and 60‘s specifically at "Boca do Lixo" a place that is known starting in the 1950‘s for dwelling a variety of marginalized people, where it has been established new forms of organizations and a code of conduct (manner) that insulted the moral of its time. Our work, starting from the concept over Michel Foucault‘s speech, seeks the attempting toward the press act on silencing the voices of the people that lived on and used the spaces of ―Boca do Lixo‖, counter parting the discursive constructions of the press about the memories of those residents, particularly, Hiroito de Moraes Joanides‘ one, a maladrando (kind of trickster or bohemian) that has lived at this region and writes in 1973 a self-biography, rich in details about that very region. This relate will be thought as a different form of telling about a local History, a version ―against the grain‖ about the happenings and the daily lives at "Boca do Lixo".