ABSTRACT
Locus of enunciation and locus of speech seem to be similar concepts, but they result from different theoretical trends.It is the case of subaltern studies (SPIVAK, 1987SPIVAK, G. C. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography. In: SPIVAK, G. C. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. New York: Methuen, 1987.), Critical Racial Theory (LADSON-BILLINGS and TATE, 1995), North American black feminism (DAVIS, 1983DAVIS, A. Women, race and class. Nova Iorque: First Vintage Books Edition, 1983.; CRENSHAW, 1989CRENSHAW, K. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, n.1, 1989.; HILL COLLINS, 1990HILL COLLINS, P. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Boston :Unwin Hyman, 1990.), Chicano studies (ANZALDUA, 1987ANZALDUA, G. Borderlands: the new mestiza = La frontera. San Francisco : Aunt. Lute, 1987.), decolonial studies (MIGNOLO, 2000MIGNOLO, W. Local Histories/Global Designs. Chichester: Princeton University Press, 2000.), among others. In this work we will navigate between the meanings of locus of enunciation (MIGNOLO, 2000MIGNOLO, W. Local Histories/Global Designs. Chichester: Princeton University Press, 2000.) and locus of speech (RIBEIRO, 2017RIBEIRO, D. O que é lugar de fala?Belo Horizonte: Letramento, 2017.) to understand how language builds racialization and naturalizes marked and unmarked personhood. In doing this, I will examine both concepts, locus of speech and locus of enunciation, on following their historical boundaries, like their similarities and differences, as well as a theoretical point of encounter they have in common. Finally, I will advocate for bringing our body back stolen by coloniality, and marking the unmarked, as a way of connecting the locus of speech to the locus of enunciation.
Keywords:
locus of speech; locus of enunciation; language
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