Banca de DEFESA: RENATA GICELLY DE FARIAS BEZERRA

Insurgency, empowerment and resignification of black women in Brazilian politics: a discursive study

Discourse analysis; intersectionality; black woman; memory; Marielle Franco.

 This thesis seeks to analyze and understand the intersectional representation of Marielle Franco, in the Brazilian political context, based on 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 gender-based political violence. In this study, we seek to analyze the discursive process put into operation by Marielle Franco in the context of anti-racist and anti-sexist struggles in Brazil, considering the space of Brazilian politics. In our theoretical device, notions such as, for example, conditions of production, 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, for example, bell hooks, Ângela Davis and Lelia Gonzalez. Reference authors for understanding the Brazilian Political System and women's participation in politics also attend, of which we highlight: Flavia Birolli and Luis Felipe Miguel, among others. It is expected, from the analyses, to understand in Marielle Franco's discursivity, power relations, relations of force and resistance.