Enunciando Contra-Hegemonias

Abstract

The text analyses the historical narrative of the movie Romance do Vaqueiro Voador, by Manfredo Caldas (2007), that reminds of the construction of the new capital from the viewpoint of the workers who  built it. The film consists of a poetic documentary, based in the homonymous cordel-poem, by Joao Bosco Bezerra Bonfim. We compared the movie with the speeches made by Juscelino Kubitschek - JK  in 1960 and during the celebrations of May 1st, 1959, registered in newsreel Brasilia no16 from NOVACAP. JK's narratives are very widespread and they are in collections of public and private archives, whereas the reports of the workers are not well known yet, which demonstrates that those voices were silenced in a cyclical process of social and historical stigmatisation and invisibility . Therefore, in Romance do Vaqueiro Voador, there is a contrast of the speeches that became hegemonic about Distrito Federal.