PORTAL STORIES, GLOCAL PROJECTS

THE LANGUA[IMA]GE OF AMERICANA CITY FROM A POST-COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This article was produced during the course of the master's research whose theme is "City and identities", reflecting on the languages and images of monuments in the history of the city of Americana, in São Paulo’s countryside, and how such representations influence the constitution of social identities. Based mostly on post-colonial theory, we went through the studies of memory, coloniality of power, reflecting on whiteness and on the paradox of the unique history, arriving at the present time-space, dominated by fake news pandemic in the local and global political context. Such references are support for the reading of the mentioned regional context and as a decolonial matrix methodology for the composition of the video-poem “LANGUA[IMA]GE: coloniality, memory and fake news”. We therefore consider that the local contexts of conservatism, which sustain a unique and hegemonic history, are part of a global project of colonial roots that perpetuates their mechanisms of power through language and image, with which official memories are forged, projecting a unique future for humanity; questions that are addressed by the video-poem.