Questões de gênero e performatividades no seriado Super Drags

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes gender and performance issues present in the first Brazilian animation series featuring drag queens’ characters portrayed as superheroines, entitled Super Drags. This study is necessary for the exhibition and reception of this series in a social, historical, and political period marked by the conservatism accentuated by the 2018 presidential elections in Brazil. The research aims to investigate and analyze the main themes present in the series, as well as to explore the performance productions about gender in the narrative. This research is anchored in a transdisciplinary perspective of applied indisciplinary linguistic studies (MOITA LOPES, 2006) and in theoretical discussions about the studies of Miskolci (2012), Louro (2001; 2004), Butler (1990; 2019), Salih (1990) and Borrillo (2010) about queer, gender, sexuality, binarism, abjection, subversion and homophobia issues through the performative of language through the studies of Austin (1990), Butler (1990) and Borba (2014). This research is classified as qualitative interpretative, which according to Moita Lopes (1994) highlights language as a determinant issue of the social fact and the means for its understanding through the understanding of the varied subjectivities and interpretations of the researched subjects. In Super Drags, issues related to gender, religion, homophobia, among others. they act as disciplinary regimes of power that aim to regulate the capacity of agency, subjectivation and resistance of the characters of the series. The issue of hypersexualization and the excessive use of sexual references, in the narrative, work as a strategy to immerse the researched context in the face of a regulatory project that aims to sanitize, erase and silence the dissident subjects and sexualities that are present in the series.