A CONSTRUCTION IN DISCOURSE: BLACK BICHAS IDENTITY IN BRASIL
bicha negra; Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); race; identity; categorization.
This thesis mainly aims to study black bichas identity in Brazil. As secondary objectives, theory and methods that enable intersectional (COLLINS; BILGE, 2021) linguistic research on race and racism are thought. The corpus used in the research is based on Paul Gilroy’s (2012) perspective on the relevance of black music to antiracism fight. The people whose texts are use in this research are black bichas who are singers, in a metonymic understanding, in which, their discourses are simultaneously individual, and collective, part of a whole identity. The corpus used in the analysis is the lyrics of songs that are part of the albuns Incendeia (2018), by Caio Prado; Galinheiro (2020), by Hiran; Remonta (2016), by Liniker; Pajubá (2017), by Linn da Quebrada; Dolores Dala, O guardião do alívio (DDGA) (2021), by Rico Dalasam. This is a qualitative research under a linguistic perspective. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used as a method. It is theorized under the concept of transdisciplinarity, by Chouliaraki e Fairclough (1999), in addition to Fairclough’s (2016; 2003) relational and textually oriented theory, and Dijk`s (2017) functional and cognitive approach. The concept of black identity is studied in black bichas’ perspectives, and has two dimensions: root and rhizome identities (GLISSANT, 2005), both necessary to antiracism. Dijk’s (2021) historical approach enables an understanding of racism, and of antiracism as relational concepts, perceiving texts as a specific type of antiracism. As a transdisciplinary research, multidisciplinary researches on race, on categorization, the Frame Theory, and Anthropology are articulated in order to study antiracism as selfrepresentaition, selfdiscourse and selfwriting, forms of pretuguês (GONZALEZ, 2020), and of escrevivência (EVARISTO, 2017a; 2017b). As a result, it is expected that selfdiscourse be identified as means to create categories that diverge from coloniality, offering concepts, and categories that are part of antiracist fought. Analysis’ results are organized in three sections: discourse on space, discourse on the Other, and selfdiscourse.