Performatividades gays: um estudo na perspectiva brasileira e argentina

Abstract

This research aims to bring to the discourse analysis field the concept of performativity, which is essential for the treatment of multiple identities, focusing, on the specific case of this study, the issue of male homosexual identities. Based on the American researcher Judith Butlers theory that gender, as well as any other sphere of identity, is built inside of language and speech, and that this is done performatively in a cultural context heteronormative and phallogocentric, we analyze the discoursive construction of homosexuality made by male homosexuals themselves in two different communicative contexts: thirty gay dating website profiles ManHunt and twenty narratives of life collected through a research conducted via online. Although these are the data collection general lines, the research is theoretical, in which the analysis of corpora is not exhaustive, but it is only a complement to what we want to point through conceptual formulations, that is, homosexuality is performative and therefore is materialized through speeches. Thus, we check what are the discursive elements used to talk about/for gay in the selected corpora. For this, we make a contrastive analysis of discourses produced in Brazil and Argentina. The choice of these two different countries is due to the fact we want to test the hypothesis that performativities would be based on imaginary which, in turn, would depend on socio-cultural and historical variables, even in the case of Latin American contexts. In conclusion, the socio-historical context influences homosexualities performativities strategies since they are formed by signs that intersect with others which we do not usually take into account to understand sexuality as language and desire.