Travessia do Banzeiro: estratégias narrativas em Eliane Brum e novas relações entre jornalismo ambiental, cultural e subjetivo

Abstract

This research investigates how Eliane Brum uses journalistic-literary language resources in Banzeiro Òkòtó to construct narrative connections between different cultural universes, especially in a context of climate urgency and socio-environmental conflicts in the Amazon. The objective is to analyze the strategies of Cultural, Environmental, and Subjective Journalism, aiming to understand how and from where these narratives emerge, impacting public debates and related policies.The critical analysis of the work, grounded in the methodology of Luiz Gonzaga Motta, focuses on three exemplary chapters. Three main strategies of counter-hegemonic language use were identified: the incorporation of words from forest peoples, the creation of neologisms to express intercultural realities, and the questioning of hegemonic terminologies. These choices are not merely stylistic but subvert dominant language, highlighting how words carry worldviews and power relations.Brum's narrative does not follow a typical chronological linearity of journalism; instead, it articulates multiple temporalities, including personal, collective, and non-human milestones. The configuration of narrative roles is innovative: non-human entities also gain prominence, while the journalist assumes multiple roles, distancing herself from traditional neutrality. The research reveals that the production of credibility in the work is achieved through multiple narrative resources, such as the inclusion of objective information and the acknowledgment of the journalist's perspective limitations. Persuasive strategies include the use of flashbacks, corporeal metaphors, and a poetic language that goes beyond conventional journalistic prose.The journalist's marked presence, expressing her contradictions and discomforts, engages with Subjective Journalism, broadening the technical approach to create more engaging and ethically committed reports. The findings indicate the need to rethink journalistic practices in contexts of profound cultural differences and asymmetric power relations, highlighting journalism's role as a space for narrative disputes and the legitimization of alternative epistemologies.The analysis contributes to the field of communication by demonstrating how the boundaries between journalism and literature, objectivity and subjectivity can be productively tensioned, translating into greater rigor, intervention potential, and ethical commitment of journalists to those and that which they seek to narrate.