“Who rode in my car? Who do you think? Jesus!”: Subversion and Displacement in the Rereading of an Interview

Abstract

This chapter revisits an interview conducted in 2002, within the scope of a project on private higher education institutions in Brazil. At the time, the authors were surprised by the subversions made by the interviewee in at least three dimensions: first, he avoided the proposed theme, opting instead to discuss only what interested him; second, since it superimposed corporeality over orality, even in the face of a solely sound recording; and in the interview setting, which ended in a sanctuary the interviewee was building. Twenty years later, the return to the interview allowed the authors to perceive new layers of meaning not seen before: the racism and the political alignment of the interviewee. This reuse showed that the reading of sources is inextricably conditioned by the context in which it occurs.