This work is based on the study of discursive language supported by the Discourse Analysis (DA) paradigm of the philosopher Michel Pêcheux, whose theory highlights the relationship established between language, history and ideology. More specifically, it seeks to analyze from epistles written in the 19th century by the Sergipe priest Felismino da Costa Fontes, leader of the “os caipiras” movement, the imaginary projections of the discursive subject and the resulting meaning effects. As a method, it was based on the construction of the AD analytical device, which intersperses description, mobilization of notions and analysis of the discursive sequences that make up the corpus. The objective is to clarify the images produced by the enu...