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

Isaac Costa é professor colaborador do Programa de Mestrado em Letras da Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE). Laureado em Licenciatura em Letras - Português, Inglês e suas respectivas literaturas pela Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco - Unidade Acadêmica de Garanhuns (2014), mestre em Linguística pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2016) e doutor em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2023). Tem experiência em áreas de estudo como a Linguística, a Semântica, a Cultura e a Análise de Discurso. 

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/130333

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Section

Performance and Gender II

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