Análise dos discursos sobre a decolonização do corpo e do cabelo negro

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze how the identities of black women are constructed through speeches about kinky hair and black body. In the contemporary national scene, in which various aesthetic movements identify the body and the black hair as conductors of new identities, black women have dared to assume an aesthetic previously denied and discriminated, that of kinky hair, as resistance to the pattern of Eurocentric beauty, which preaches what Foucault (2000) calls docilization, submission and transformation of bodies. Based on the concepts of polyphony and controversial denial of Ducrot (1987), the present work focuses on the analysis of the black women's discourse (s) of resistance in digital media, considering the relevant contributions of these voices (s) ) for the rescue of their identity and empowerment, in the context of contemporary cyberculture. For that, we analyze, from the theoretical-methodological perspective of the Discourse Analysis and the qualitative research, chronicles produced by black women from different places in Brazil and published in the blog "Black Blogueiras". This virtual space is taken as a privileged field, in which we can verify how, contemporaneously, the discourses produced in this site critically reproduce naturalized prejudiced statements, and a range of ideas produced by an ideological bias. In the analyzed statements, we observe that: a) the polyphony is presented as a strategy of the speakers, to deny prejudiced assumptions, propagated by means of certain statements; b) controversial denial may present itself as a mode of resistance of the speaker to certain discourses that circulate in Brazilian society, denying a present perspective in the affirmative statement