Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LEILA HELOISE DA SILVA JERONIMO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LEILA HELOISE DA SILVA JERONIMO
DATE: 22/09/2021
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência - Plataforma Google Meet
TITLE:

THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF SEXUAL IDENTITIES IN STREAMING: a Bakhtinian analysis of the unfinished identity of fictional characters in the Sex Education series

KEY WORDS:

Language. Identity construction. Sexuality. Streaming. Sex Education.

PAGES: 84
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Linguística Aplicada
SUMMARY:

 

Starting from the principle that life and art always go hand in hand, this work seeks, through the capture and reproduction of characteristic fragments of social life, to reflect and refract, in artistic productions, typical aspects of the social and historical individual in order to create intelligibility between these two complementary worlds. Consequently, in this attempt, aspects related to the individuals' identities are brought to the surface, after all, the aesthetic completion given to the characters discursively denounces the time and space in which such productions are inserted and the ideologies of the groups represented therein. In this context, this paper aims, from the theoretical and methodological postulates of Bakhtin's Circle (1993; 2011; 2015; 2018; 2019) and the transgressive bias of Applied Linguistics, to understand how the construction process of the fictional characters' sexual identity occurs in the Sex Education series broadcast in the streaming chronotope. This work considers more specifically the journey of Eric Effiong, a black, effeminate teenager, son of Protestant parents, who undergoes several identity transformations throughout the production's first season. Accordingly, from a qualitative-interpretativist study, we analyze, verbal-vocal-visually (PAULA, 2017), the concrete utterances taken from the scenes selected as corpus of analysis in order to understand how the manifestation of homosexual identity suffers interference from verbal-ideological forces and how these discontinuous bodies are materialized as grotesque. Preliminary results indicate that Eric's sexual identity, because it reflects contemporary aspects of the LGBTQIA+ community, is continuously transformed by the social environment that acts upon his body in diverse ways throughout the series' first season. Furthermore, in the series, his body is given grotesque finishes that express social views about his sexual orientation.

 

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1168633 - MARILIA VARELLA BEZERRA DE FARIA
Interna - 1149420 - MARIA DA PENHA CASADO ALVES
Externa à Instituição - LUCIANE DE PAULA - UNESP