Journalistic Narrative: a Story of Real Life

Resumo

The urban centers are home to humble human beings, who circulate in the social periphery and remain nearly invisible to most of population. Many modern journalistic narratives have sought to redeem these kinds of people of anonymity in reports that escape the impact model for information only. It’s called literary journalism that presents the fact by using literature expressive resources to present real-life characters. So this communication aims to present a reading from the perspective of dialogical language of the report “Signal closed to Camila” and its illustration from Eliane Brum’s book A vida que ninguém vê (2006) in order to demonstrate how to configure this real-life character, which circulates in a large urban center, living on the margins of society, whose identity is ignored by the population. The aim therefore is to discuss this narrative format that expects to awaken the reader to the reality around him/her through stories which excel at dramatic tone and tension that surrounds the characters represented therein. This kind of narrative substitutes the literary function of stories, whose current contemporary purpose is to discuss the narrator’s own development process, as illustrated by the metalinguistic narratives from Nuno Ramos (2008), André Queiroz (2004), among others. To fulfill this proposal, the theoretical reference is the theory / analysis of the language from the perspective of Bakhtin’s Circle, considering the dialogic relationships between image / text / context, and the compositional form, style and tone that make up the narrative evaluative reported. So it aims to demonstrate how the report configure the character’s identity by giving her visibility, promoting the reader’s active memory and configuring an identity profile of urban living on the urban periphery.