World Trade Center in the media discourse: the islamic and north-american identity (des)construction in Veja and Caros Amigos

Abstract

This article examines the discourses of print media (Veja and Caros Amigos) and the socially excluded (the Islamic) in order to problematize the “discursivizações” on the construction of the identities of the contemporary subject, from different discursive formations, in the midst of relations power. Thus, the discursive event of the World Trade Center narrated by news media writing is the starting point of the research of this article. Interest us the production of social meanings of media discourses, representations associated with social models or gender identity revealed in report, noting how different senses are brought by the media about the discursive event of the World Trade Center, which occurred in September 11, 2001, in the United States of America (USA). This is a survey of multidisciplinary nature, anchored in Foucault archeogenealogical method.