Concepções do ser mulher: uma análise discursiva nas falas de mulheres indígenas e quebradeiras de coco babaçu

Abstract

In this research, we propose, through the tools made available by French Discourse Analysis, to identify the discursive and imaginary formations that cross the discourses of indigenous women and babassu coconut breakers, materialized in their own speeches when they approach their conceptions of being a woman from their ways of life and subjectivities. Interpretation and meaning are concepts taken by discourse analysis, this is important to say that, as meaning is not exact, discourse analysis is not exact either, therefore, it considers the real as the interpretative real. In this research, we consider that discourses are capable of revealing social, historical and ideological issues. The discourses that are part of the corpus of the research involve testimonies of several women from various regions of the country, who occupy different spaces in society and contribute in a unique way to the strengthening of their struggles. To carry out this research, we relied on the studies of Orlandi (2012), Foucault (2004), Pêcheux (2019) and others. As a result of this research, we can highlight that these women build their conceptions about themselves seeking to distance themselves from what is placed on them by the other. Through their discourses, we can see that they are always asserting themselves as women in a patriarchal society and as indigenous women in a racist society. For this affirmation and reaffirmation of their identity, they seek to get involved in the struggles for their rights and for the rights of their people without forgetting their roots, as we could observe in the discursive formations that underlie their discourses 3 warlike and militant discursive formation, for example. We believe that the investigation we propose to do here contributes to the reflection on the groups under study, especially with regard to the representation of the female figure, identifying how they are subjectively constituted in their discourses.