MÍDIA IMIGRANTE E MEMÓRIA: ESTUDO DAS REPRESENTAÇÕES SOBRE A MORTE A PARTIR DOS OBITUÁRIOS DO JORNAL UCRANIANO PRACIA

Abstract

This research refers to a characterization of representations about death that are in the obituaries of the Ukrainian newspaper Pracia. To begin a discussion, was made a contextualized history on socioeconomic issues and a Ukrainian immigration in Brazil, in the state of Paraná, and in Prudentópolis city - PR. For this purpose, the researchers Batista and Martins (2013), Boruszenko (1969), Burko (1963), Menezes (2009), Oliveira (2013), Matilde (2006), Priori (2012), among others. (2010), as well as some studies on this kind of newspaper, based on the works of researchers Conde (2000), Park (2008) and Szeremeta (2014). The newspaper Pracia is a centenary newspaper made in Prudentópolis-PR, and has as employees the descendants of Ukrainians living in the city.In the care of two priests, the newspaper has a fortnightly circulation (2,700 copies), sent by mail to subscribers in several cities in Brazil, with the largest number of readers present in Paraná and Santa Catarina states. For a study of this research, we have found 245 obituaries, published between the years 2001 and 2014. This text was revised for publications in Portuguese, which were incorporated from the year 2001; In view of whole situation, the newspaper was only published in the Ukrainian language since 1911. To organize and systematize the material, was used methodological resources of the Documentary Research (PIMENTEL, 2001; SÁ-SILVA, ALMEIDA e GUINDANI; 2009) and Content Analysis (BARDIN, 1976). The theoretical contribution of this research to understand the process of representation was based on the theory of Social Representations, based on the concepts of anchoring and objectification, by Serge Moscovici (2013). To support this analysis, the theoretical contributions on the studies of social memory, by Celso Pereira de Sá (2015) and also, different visions and understandings about death, were used to provide theoretical background. Among the authors, we can mention Da Matta (1997), Vilar (2001), Elias (2001), Franco, (2007), Combinato and Queiroz, 2011), Atanásio (2010), Patriarca e Lima 2014, Tenchena (2010), Guérios (2007), Costa (2012), Corso and Martenovetko (2011). The data resulting from the analysis showed that death is represented as a divine call to a new life, obtained from merit in fulfilling the earthly mission, that each individual is assigned. The final analyzes also point, theoretically-comparative, the understanding about death from the representation obtained with theoretical conceptions about the phenomenon in contemporary societies.