Banca de DEFESA: BRUNA FERNANDES BARROS

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STUDENT : BRUNA FERNANDES BARROS
DATE: 29/04/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: VIRTUAL
TITLE:

Between subversion and violence: discursive resistance in the self-reports in the book Elza, from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis

KEY WORDS:

Elza Soares; Resistance; Discoursive resistance; Speech; Biography; Language; Power.

PAGES: 115
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

Thinking about gender studies is, essentially, thinking about women, their experiences, limitations and practices. Just as Beauvoir recognizes women as the other, the one who needs to be named, as it goes beyond the norm, which would be to be a man, the female gender would be the only one marked, the one for which the very concept of gender becomes necessary. If we understand that man would be non-gender, the norm, then white would be non-race. This logic of whiteness as a standard is discussed by Schwarcz in her works. Therefore, if the woman is marked for being a woman and the black person for her blackness, the black woman is marked twice, her body is denied twice.
This path can be statistically followed in history, in the present and is illustrated through Elza Soares’ biography. The singer was an international icon, a talent recognized by the majority of music critics around the world, but she had to fight until the end to be recognized as such. In her personal life, Elza also suffered violence, for being black, for being a woman, for being poor. She was forced to get married as a teenager, to take care of her children in poverty and also to overcome violence at home. Even after achieving fame, Elza had to fight battles for all her achievements and prove herself much more than other consolidated artists from the same period.
However, this study is not about the fight itself, but about the resistance, which is contained in many fights, but, in a certain way, anticipates them all. From the speech of resistance, Elza tells her story, without permanent glory, full of small and big victories and defeats. Reading Elza Soares, on the book Elza (2018), by Zeca Camargo, can be a way to start reading countless subjects, especially black women, to understand their complexities that go beyond their social background, but that cross their intimate and their construction as individuals. Each person has a world in their story, Elza Soares' seems to present the strength and complexity of a galaxy.
In order to study this discursive territory, I present authors such as Collins (2009), to understand the relationship of black women in the world, Foucault (1996, 2004) and Butler (2019), to understand the relationship of the subject with the world and himself, Arfuch (2010) and Arendt (2000) in order to talk about biography, autobriography and their crossings in the subject, among others. To perform the analysis based on Critical Discourse Analysis, Fairclough (1989, 1992, 2009, 2017) and Martin & Rose (2007) offer the theoretical-methodological structure and categories of analysis.
This study is directed by the general objective of analyzing the act of giving an account of oneself as a dialectical process in the book Elza, based on assumptions of the Critical Discourse Analysis in line with studies on resistance, power, and autobiography. And, to achieve this objective, I determine three other specific objectives: defining the relationship between CDA, the dialectical-relational methodology and the resources of meaning in order to support the discursive analysis; defining biography, autobiography and their entanglements, crossing history, politics and society; and defining discursive resistance based on the concepts of discourse, resistance and power.
Finally, I seek to answer the question: What is the relationship between discursive resistance and the construction of the subject through the narrative (of oneself) in the biographical work Elza, by Zeca Camargo? Hypothetically, I claim that the subject resists through the narrative, whether in the narrative of the world told to themselves, or even the notion of self. And, if we consider that our worldview is directly associated with who we think we are, we can consider that the narrative, in general, is inseparable from the subject. In the case of Elza Soares, I dare say that resistance constitutes her as much as her capacity for change and adaptation and that, despite the fact that perhaps there is no fixed, nameable self, it is exactly in this capacity of the recognition of being without ever actually being that resides the resistance.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ARGUS ROMERO DE ABREU MORAIS
Externo à Instituição - CLÁUDIO MÁRCIO DO CARMO
Interna - GIANI DAVID SILVA
Interna - LILIAN APARECIDA ARAO
Presidente - RENATO CAIXETA DA SILVA