Agrado's multimodal narrative performance in All about my mother: dismantling gender authenticity

Abstract:

This article aims at a multimodal analysis of the semiotic resources Agrado, a character in Almodóvar's All about my mother, mobilizes in order to dismantle gender authenticity in enacting a monologue. As theoretical-analytical tools, we use indexical cues (WORTHAM, 2001) such as reference, predication and metapragmatic descriptor, the notion of positioning (DAVIES & HARRÉ, 1999) and the concepts of recycling, reframing and rekeying (TANNEN, 2006). Based on Queer Theories, we seek to identify Agrado's entextualizations (BAUMAN & BRIGGS, 1990; SILVERSTEIN & URBAN, 1996) and the orders of indexicality (BLOMMAERT, 2005) to which she submits guiding discourses in circulation.

Keywords:
Narrative performance; multimodality; positioning; entextualization; orders of indexicality