Saying about women

a discursive look at/to fat-black body

Abstract

Considering that there is, currently, a cult of the body considered “ideal” (read thin), we tried to reflect, in this study, on the corporal pattern imposed on women. In this scenario, we highlight the black and fat woman, as we understand that this subject finds in her physical form another means of prejudice and discrimination. Therefore, we aim to analyze, based on the theoretical-methodological contribution of Discourse Analysis of French orientation, how the subject-women and their bodies are incisively traversed by the dictates of a patriarchal and capitalist society. For this, we cut out, as a corpus, statements made by two of the characters present in the brazilian short film “Gorda”, available on YouTube, since it is assumed that the words that circulate there, even though they try to break with the paradigms of the “perfect” body, reveal difficulty in acceptance. Thus, we understand that these speeches reaffirm rather than break barriers for the “breaking” of standards. Therefore, the concepts of Subject, Production Conditions (CPs), Discursive Formation (FD) and Ideological Formation (FI) were mobilized to theoretically anchor the discussion, as we understand that, through them, it is possible to perceive how the sociocultural values ​​established are reproduced discursively.