Corpos em trânsito e trajetórias textuais

Abstract

This article aims to explore the intertwining of the text mobility andthe reporting of bodies mobility, analyzing the marks of racial, national and gender differences in the textual trajectory of an online post about “Female Cuban physicians” during the first three days of the implementation program “Mais Médicos” (More Doctors) in Brazil in 2013. On the one hand, this trajectory allows us to explore the explanatory potential of scales and traffic metaphors. On the other hand, we include the feminist debate about intersections and a feminist linguistic-anthropological reinterpretation on subjectification processes. The analysis shows that the scale variations take place both in space and in historical time of Brazilian racism and that the circulation of those reports of bodies and texts about them activates both sedimented meanings “black woman as maids”, as unpredictable meanings such as “black woman as physician”, about the body of the “back woman”. Our conclusions are: 1) the notion of scale helps to think the space indictments within the historical colonial configurations (Brazilian racism, regional scalar variation Northeast/Southeast, national/transnational); 2) the connection between bodies and texts is not only about reconnecting linguistics texts, but about reconnecting visual networks of bodies and living bodies; 3) these reconnections promote connections to apparently separated dimensions, to a multi-indictment which supplements the interactions, to a sliding between non-stable meaning production dimensions.