Banca de DEFESA: ADRIANA MARIA CUNHA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ADRIANA MARIA CUNHA
DATE: 28/08/2023
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: VIRTUAL
TITLE:

TRANSGENERITY AND SELF-WRITING: DISCURSIVE TRAJECTORIES AND CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITIES

KEY WORDS:

transgender, self-writing, queer theory, transfeminism, Semiolinguistic Theory.

PAGES: 239
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This research is based on the analysis of the self-writing of transsexuals, understood as an aesthetic of the self and a technology of resistance in relation to the cisheteronormative order that affects bodies and subjectivities. We analyzed the writing of the self undertaken by four transsexuals in the book “Vidas Trans: the courage to exist”: Amara Moira, Márcia Rocha, João W. Nery and T. Brant. We are based on Foucault's reflections about self-care and writing; governmentality; biopolitics; truth regimes; objectification and subjectivation, in dialogue with Queer Theory and Feminist and Transfeminist Theory, we seek to understand how these subjects construct their subjectivities and affirm their transgender identities. We resorted to the works of Judith Butler (2010, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018); Letícia Nascimento (2021); Guacira Lopes Louro (1997, 2020), Jota Mombaça (2017); Preciado (2011, 2022), among others, to think about the phenomenon of transgendericity and the constitution of trans subjects in society. We also used the Semiolinguistic Theory by Patrick Charaudeau (2004, 2006, 2008, 2008b, 2017), with the concepts of situation and communicational contract, modes of discourse organization (descriptive, narrative and enunciative) and socio-discursive imaginaries, to carry out the analyzes of themes discussed by these subjects, in addition to operationalizing interpretations of the narratives based on socio-discursive imaginaries, on the observation of the ethé, according to Ruth Amossy (2005), and pathemic dimensions. We observe how self-writing, occurring from a communication situation, resorts to the modes of discourse organization, from which we perceive certain socio-discursive imaginaries related to these transgender identities. Which leads us to understand that the construction and affirmation of gender identities is not stable, as proposed by a binary logic. The gender is also constituted by performative acts, being something you become and not something you are born with. On the other hand, this being a composite identity, gender is only part of the constitution of the subjectivity. The narratives bring processes of self-discovery and self-acceptance of the authors, configuring, in this self-writing, a part of the subjectivation of the subjects, projecting ethé, related to a before and an after of the transitional process, and pathemic dimensions, like fear, which passes to joy, to the power of life and freedom with its transition processes. The Discourse Organization Modes are mobilized to carry out the speech projects, emphasizing the elocutionary behavior, in the Enunciative Mode, which brings the enunciators' points of view and worldviews. The research carried out, thus, shows not only issues related to trans identities and their construction in and through discourse, but also the debate, seen today, about gender freedom as a citizen's right. Debate to which the Discourse Analysis of Frech line brings its contribution.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - CLAUDIO HUMBERTO LESSA
Interna - GIANI DAVID SILVA
Externa ao Programa - LUCIANA APARECIDA SILVA DE AZEREDO
Externa à Instituição - MARIANA RAMALHO PROCÓPIO XAVIER
Externa à Instituição - TAMIRES FERREIRA COÊLHO