Pré-jornalismo: operações de tempo e narrativa nas reportagens das Grandes Navegações

Abstract

For a better understanding about the origins and essences of journalistic narratives, the present work goes back to the Age of Discovery, when multiple writings of an experimental literature were made to report the European overseas expansion during the 15th and 16th century, especially dealing with the finding of the American continent. From this context, the texts of Cristóvão Colombo, Pero Vaz de Caminha e Antonio Pigafetta are taken as a pre-journalism, which told the recent world events in embryonic news stories, as defended by brazilian researchers such as Maria Cecília Guirado e José Marques de Melo. The idea also focuses on analyzing how the narrative field works on our social context with temporal, structural and symbolic issues, applying Paul Ricoeur's philosophical concepts about our reconfigurations according to communicational practices, using his thoughts to contemplate how journalism, from yesterday and today, operates. From this on, the research sees the news field, even in its previous moment, as a producer of meanings, knowledge and references, crucial for our location within the world and in our chronology, having the potential to sediment layers in our memory. In the same way, the work promotes the narrative journalist as a reflection of the social relations prevailing in its times, full of mimetic frameworks and preconceptions, such as Eurocentrism within the representations of the Other during the mentioned navigations and discoveries, in an act which would proceed to the genocide of native people of America in the following years and consequently induce into anthropological problems that surround us until today, even splattering in the practice of the news profession that would yet to be formed. Thus, a retrospection exercise is carried out, much thought to help in the elucidation of our present.