ABSTRACT
This article aims to discuss the expression ‘dispute the nega’ - which is part of the cultural universe of many regions of Brazil and constitutes social practices in contexts of competition in different games - from the perspective of studies of gender, discourse, race and social class. For this purpose, we theoretically focus on authors who problematize gender relations in an intersectional perspective, highlighting other dimensions that permeate this category, such as race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, etc. The studies of Angela Davis (2016)DAVIS, Angela. Mulheres, raça e classe. Tradução de Heci Regina Candiani. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2016. and Heleieth Saffioti (2013)SAFFIOTI, Heleieth. A mulher na sociedade de classes: mito e realidade. São Paulo: Expressão popular, 2013. on gender, race and class, and Norman Fairclough’s (1998; 2001FAIRCLOUGH, Norman. Discurso e mudança social. Tradução de Izabel Magalhães. Brasília: UNB, 2001 [1992].; 2003FAIRCLOUGH, Norman. Analysing discourse. Textual analysis for social research. London: Routledge, 2003.) works on discourse, among others, are brought to the theoretical scene. We intend, with this, using as a tool of analysis the principles of Critical Discourse Analysis - ADC (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001FAIRCLOUGH, Norman. Discurso e mudança social. Tradução de Izabel Magalhães. Brasília: UNB, 2001 [1992]., 2003FAIRCLOUGH, Norman. Analysing discourse. Textual analysis for social research. London: Routledge, 2003.; VIEIRA; RESENDE, 2016VIEIRA, Viviane; RESENDE, Viviane de Melo. Análise de Discurso (para a) Crítica: O texto como material de pesquisa. 2.ed. Campinas, SP: Pontes Editores, 2016.; MAGALHÃES, 2000MAGALHÃES, Izabel. Eu e tu: a construção do sujeito no discurso médico. Brasília: Thesaurus, 2000.), to unveil the ideological discourses that underlie the expression ‘dispute the nega’, as well as understand its cultural and historical roots, once the person who is the object of the dispute is a black woman whose body is offered as a prize to the winner, thus being objectified, subordinated and instrumentalized, following the logic of a patriarchal society in which the woman’s body, and the black woman’s in particular, is used primarily and essentially to serve men in their physical and emotional needs. In this study, we are guided by the butlerian conception of gender, as we agree that the constitution of this category occurs through cultural and social confrontations reiterated daily by discursive practices. In other words, it is about the preponderance of the discourse in the constitution of the subjects, given that we are constituted from the other. When proposing the study of expression in emphasis in the perspective of intersectional analysis (SCOTT, 1994SCOTT, Joan. Prefácio a gender and politics of history. Cadernos Pagu , n. 3 (Desacordos, desamores e diferenças), p. 11-27, 1994.; BUTLER, 2016BUTLER, Judith. Problemas de gênero: feminismo e subversão da identidade. Tradução de Renato Aguiar. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Civilização Brasileira, 2016.; DAVIS, 2016DAVIS, Angela. Mulheres, raça e classe. Tradução de Heci Regina Candiani. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2016.) we realize that the intersectionality of gender permeated by other social markers puts on evidence female subordination, since the category woman, especially the black and poor, remains, even today, in a condition of objectification, marginalization and subordination in society.
Keywords:
‘dispute the nega’; genre; race; class; discourses