O corpo-palimpsesto em monstrans: uma análise crítica do discurso multimodal sobre corpos, sexualidades e gêneros nos quadrinhos autobiográficos de Lino Arruda

Abstract

This qualitative study analyzes the graphic novel Monstrans: Experimentando Horrormônios (LINO, 2021) through Critical Discourse Analysis perspective (FAIRCLOUGH, 1995; 2015[1989]; RESENDE; RAMALHO, 2006). The aim is to discuss how multimodal discourses about bodies, sexualities and genders materialized in the graphic novel act on the maintenance or contestation of hegemonies related to identity construction. To this end, we seek to identify the frequency of themes; to analyze discourses and social relations materialized by the verbal (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) and visual (KRESS; VAN LEEUWEN, 2006) resources of the work; and to discuss the implications of interdiscursive, intertextual relations and social practices in the processes of maintenance, reaffirmation and contestation of hegemonies (FAIRCLOUGH, 1995; 2015[1989]; RESENDE; RAMALHO, 2006) related to identity constructions. The analysis of the results shows the recurrence and naturalization of social practices of violence maintained by discourses of dehumanization and abjectification (KRISTEVA, 1982) sustained by hegemony and articulated to the matrix of oppression (COLLINS, 2000; COLLINS; BILGE, 2016). We also perceive that the production of the abject body occurs from the outside in through social practices that both mediate the selfunderstanding of the body and intervene in its form (Figures 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7). However, we also realize that the drive and desire can break the repetition of certain practices while the body, in its multiple and palimpsest character, rewrites senses between its layers (Figures 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14). Therefore, it is relevant to understand both the processes of abjectification and dehumanization and the emancipatory potential of the body that rewrites itself without losing the multiplicity of its meanings.