A Bearded Amazon

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Keywords:

Drag , Performance, Gender, Discourse Analysis, Psychoanalysis

Abstract

The text grounds its methodology in Discourse Analysis. To do so, it mobilizes signifiers with the aim of discursively analyzing the artistic performance of a drag queen. The thesis presented argues that dressing up is a discursive mechanism that creates a symbolic punctum that conceals the traumatic reality of growing up unable to associate with the feminine. It concludes that the drag’s position, as a tension between masculinist formation and its opposite, represents a liminal, dissenting space of hybridity and transfiguration of pain, repression, and loss. The contribution lies in the fact that it is through this artistic practice that the subject of discourse resists and authorizes oneself to act, to signify.

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Author Biography

Isaac Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS

Isaac Costa is a collaborating professor in the Master's Program in Literature at the University of Pernambuco (UPE). Laureate in Degree in Literature - Portuguese, English and their respective literatures from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco - Garanhuns Academic Unit (2014), master's degree in Linguistics from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2016) and PhD in Language Studies from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2023). He has experience in areas of study such as Linguistics, Semantics, Culture and Discourse Analysis. 

Published

2024-06-09

How to Cite

Costa, I. (2024). A Bearded Amazon . Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 14(3). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/138758

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Section

Performance and Gender II

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