A performatividade em Você é minha mãe?: um estudo acerca da construção cultural de papéis sociais através da linguagem

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the language performativity embodied in the Graphic Novel Are you my mother?, written by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, from the point of view of the construction of her sexuality, her profession and her autobiographical comics production and social demands upon the relation with her mother. The analyzes are based on a theoretical framework that relates linguistic psychoanalysis, from a theoretical trigger analogy, metaphor, condensation and displacement, established paradigmatic, as metonymy, displacement and referral, manifest through the phrase of the language. Therefore, we betake Saussure and Jakobson in the field of language, and Freud and Lacan, in their psychoanalytic readings. In what concerns the conceptualization about subject discursive and performative language, we seek for support in Butler and Salih, who review the citacionality and formal mechanisms that confirm the performative process through language. By the main theme of the narrative plot, the answer to the question "Are you my mother?", were selected clippings to confirm or refute this performativity mother put in check. The result is an analysis that permeates the cultural construction of social roles, especially in relation to the expectation on the performativity of gender.