A narrativização de uma experiência feminina como instrumento de construção da identidade mestiça: análise semiótica de Borderlands/La Frontera de Gloria Anzaldúa
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2011-12-12
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This study aims at discussing the complex constitution of an identity formed in the
southwest border of the United States of America with Mexico, based on the Gloria
Anzaldúa‟s narrative in her book Borderlands/La Frontera: the new mestiza. Anzaldúa is a
chicana born in the State of Texas in a border city with Mexico. In this region there are at
the same place cultural forces that face each other, ending in psychological and social
conflicts of order in the citizens, the chicanos. The non-harmonious meeting of White,
Mexican and Indigenous cultures increases linguistics, racial and gender problems, which
can be seen from Anzaldúa‟s voice. In order to analyze this narrative, we made use of the
French Semiotics methods of Greimas (1993; 1973; 2008) that are named Generative
Course of Meaning, among others theorists who shared the same ideas (BARROS, 1990a,
1990b, 2001; FIORIN, 2001; FONTANILLE, 2007; et al). The theoretical choice of the
analysis is justified by the understanding that this theory appropriately fit the narrative
analysis, because it contains tools to reveal its structure; also because we believe that the
French Semiotics theory has a broader range and can approach the Meaning and the
discussions that appear in the book. During the analysis, we use the studies from other
theorists related to the themes Language, Gender, Race in order to establish a dialogue with
Anzaldúa, promoting the discussion of the conflicts on the border identities construction.
From this discussion promoted by the theorists (ORLANDI, 1988; MÉNDEZ;
O‟‟DONNELL; PINHEIRO, 2000; HALL, 2003; SPIVAK, 2010) we drive the discussion to
an important fact that is behind this scenery managing the conflicts of identity: the politic
issue. We perceive the politics mapping and keeping the difficult linguistics relationships of
this region, as well as the relations of race and gender. Last but not least we understand that
behind the political, psychological and social barriers because of the border identities, there
is the desire and the problem of recognition.
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MOREIRA, Thami Amarilis Straiotto. A narrativização de uma experiência feminina como instrumento de construção da identidade mestiça: análise semiótica de Borderlands/La Frontera de Gloria Anzaldúa. 2011. 173 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2011.