Semiotics and intertextuality: a study of the “Minimanual do guerrilheiro urbano” ́s presence on the network between 2010 and 2016

Abstract

This work consists in the investigation of the ways of (re)insertion of a work in the net almost half a century after the emergence of its original version, which occurred in a “pre-internet” moment. The work is the Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla, written in 1969 by Carlos Marighella, and the investigated material is the return to the Minimanual presented contemporaneously in the net. Between the late 1960 and the mid-2010, there were social cultural changes, the emergency of new media and new discursive genres. Given this, some questions arise: what reasons lead to the revival of the work? How does its appropriation happen? Which discursive mechanisms contribute to the explanation of this resurgence? From these and other issues, our objective is to verify the semiotic categories which predominantly remains and those which have changed most by comparing the original text and those which refer to it half a century later, in the process of construction of intertextuality and transmediation, and therefore, understanding the differences and similarities related to the guerrilla’s image and to the organization and functioning of the texts approached. As results, it is observed that the return is motivated by gender, by visual elements and above all, by passionate traits in the original work and reconfigured in the context of the study.