The Sun: A Figure in Dispute

Abstract

A controversial dialogue is established between the songs “Fotografia 3x4”, by Belchior, and “Alegria, alegria”, by Caetano Veloso. The first one permits us to follow the stages of a migratory course and the relationships that the immigrant supports with his main transferring instance of values, the tropicalist subject. Because of this dialogue, the aspectualization of the migratory process is justified in terms of the impulse to migrate, the immigrant’s frustration and the later wish to return to his hometown or to resist in a foreign place, fighting against the other. The reactions to what was experienced by the subject from “Fotografia 3x4”, should be considered according to the fiduciary agreement that motivates his migratory route. Each stage of this course seems to replace or discuss the base of the referred agreement from what not only the act of being, but also the act of doing of the subject from “Fotografia 3x4” are being determined. The evidence is the narrative statute of ambivalence that the Sun performs in those two songs, either appearing with a euphoric value or showing a dysphoric one. In this article, we intend to examine how the figure Sun corresponds to several themes, how it performs different narrative roles and how it shows contrary and/or contradictory values in the referred songs. We point out that the way the figure Sun is treated in the songs defines enunciative attitudes that are in a dialogic relationship of a very controversial kind.