Putagrafia de Fátima Medeiros: lugar de enunciação, refração da experiência e processos de subjetivação
Based on two theoretical and methodological assumptions of the Materialist Discourse Analysis, this article analyzes the book Puta História (2024), by Fátima Medeiros, understanding it as a putagrafia (Ribeiro, 2020) in the format of an autobiographical romance that appears in discourse as a memory...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2025
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/proa/article/view/20104 |
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| Summary: | Based on two theoretical and methodological assumptions of the Materialist Discourse Analysis, this article analyzes the book Puta História (2024), by Fátima Medeiros, understanding it as a putagrafia (Ribeiro, 2020) in the format of an autobiographical romance that appears in discourse as a memory produced on the margins and despite the stigma. Starting from the notion of place of enunciation (Zoppi-Fontana, 2002), we investigate the discursive mechanisms for the author, historical militant of the category, projects different feixes de formações imaginárias e efeitos-leitores, diriginó-se both to other sex workers and to an external public. Articulating the concept of putagrafias (Ribeiro, 2020), understood as “a new place to enunciate about a prostituição in which its voice, by means of writing, can be ressoar and make echo” (Ribeiro, 2020, p. 17), we show how the jocosidade in Medeiros’ work operates as a refração da experiência (Lopes, 2023b), I decompose and reconfigure dinners experienced with clients through writing. The analysis demonstrates that the work functions as a subjective gesture and an aesthetic and political intervention that transforms marginalized life into a literary narrative, allowing the author to singularize her trajectory and dispute representations. Furthermore, we show how autobiographical writing acts as self-care and freedom practice (Parteka, 2016), creating symbolic conditions for the realization of intersubjective mourning work (Dunker, 2023). We conclude that the work promotes a positive self-representation of sexual workers, constitutes an artefact of cultural memory and operates as a device of resonance and ressignificance, transforming personal narrative into a powerful object of symbolic and political dispute. |
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| ISSN: | 2175-6015 |
