Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JÚLIA DEMETRIO XAVIER

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STUDENT : JÚLIA DEMETRIO XAVIER
DATE: 30/06/2026
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Júlia Demétrio Xavier
TITLE:

FROM LOVE TO VIOLENCE IN THE ÂNGELA DINIZ CASE: A Discourse Analysis of Blame in Doca Street’s Book Mea Culpa (2006)

KEY WORDS:

Discourse Analysis; Gender-Based Violence; Blame; Doca Street; Publishing Market.

PAGES: 59
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This study analyzes the discourse on gender-based violence and victim blaming in the autobiographical book Mea Culpa (2006), written by Doca Street, the confessed murderer of Ângela Diniz. The analysis is grounded in the theoretical and methodological assumptions of French-style materialist Discourse Analysis (DA), articulated interdisciplinarily with Gender Studies (Feminisms and Masculinities) and Publishing Studies. In 1976, the Minas Gerais socialite Ângela Diniz was murdered by her then-boyfriend, Raul Fernando do Amaral Street, known as Doca Street. What emerged in the trials that followed was the mobilization of legal discourses and arguments, such as “legitimate defense of honor,” which blamed the victim based on an assessment of her morality and mitigated the killer’s responsibility. Thirty years after the crime, in 2006, the author published his own version of the events in a book. Thus, this research has the general objective of analyzing how the motivations and guilt for the murder of Ângela Diniz are signified in the work. To achieve this objective, the book Mea Culpa, published by Editora Planeta, was chosen as the basis for the corpus.The objects of analysis were divided into three categories (discursive segments): passages from the main body of the work, in which Doca constructs imaginary representations of himself and Ângela; the paratextual elements produced by the publisher (cover, back cover, preface, spine, and flaps); and the contrast with the defense’s discourse from the first trial (1979), extracted from the transcript of the Praia dos Ossos podcast (2020). As an expected result, the analyses seek to identify the processes of blame directed at the memory of Ângela Diniz, demonstrating how the murderer’s justifications in the autobiographical narrative and the choices of the publishing market work together to legitimize misogynistic attitudes, transforming male guilt into the revictimization of women and validating patriarchal domination.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno - JOSE DE SOUZA MUNIZ JUNIOR
Externa à Instituição - LETÍCIA SANTANA GOMES
Presidente - MARIANA JAFET CESTARI
Interna - PAULA RENATA MELO MOREIRA