Insurgency, empowerment and resignification of black women in Brazilian politics: a discursive study
Discourse Analysis; black feminism; policy; memory; Marielle Franco
This thesis seeks to analyze and understand the discourses of Marielle Franco from the theoretical-analytical device of Discourse Analysis, as proposed by Michael Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi. We take as a starting point data collected from the Brazilian political-electoral system that indicate that black women are a minority within the Brazilian political system. They are also the group that has suffered the most political gender violence. In this study, we seek to analyze the discursive process set in motion by Marielle Franco in the context of anti-racist and anti-sexist struggles in Brazil, considering the space of Brazilian politics. The reflections proposed here observe the functioning of the political 'we' and the political 'I' with regard to the positioning of black women in the Brazilian political scenario. In our theoretical device, notions such as, for example, production conditions, discursive memory and subject position appear. We also propose a dialogue with other areas of knowledge, especially with black feminism, in a triad of gender, class and race, based on authors, such as bell hooks, Patrícia Collins, Ângela Davis, Sueli Carneiro and Lelia Gonzalez. Authors of reference to understand the Brazilian Political System and the participation of women in politics also attend, of which we highlight: Flavia Birolli and Luis Felipe Miguel, among others. It is expected, from the analysis, to understand in Marielle Franco's discursiveness, the power relations, relations of strength and resistance.