Discursos sobre gênero, raça e classe nas tiras Os Santos

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the discourses mobilized from the comic strip series Os Santos, seeking to understand how discursive formations of gender, race, and class contribute to the discourse of the strips as a production of denunciation and social critique. Os Santos is a series of comic strips, authored by Triscila Oliveira and Leandro Assis, which were released between December 2019 and August 2023. The study focuses on the field of Discourse Studies, therefore adopting a qualitative approach, characterized by analytical-interpretative research. The corpus consists of twelve strips selected from publications on the social network Instagram @leandro_assis_ilustra. As a theoretical framework, the following concepts from Discourse Analysis were used to examine the comic strips: discourse, discursive formation, interdiscourse, and memory, based on the studies of Michel Pêcheux (1990, 1999, and 2014), Orlandi (2005, 2012, and 2015), and Dias (2023, 2024). In addition, to discuss gender, race, and class, we used the studies of authors such as Gonzalez (1988, 2018, and 2020), Crenshaw (1989), Akotirene (2019), among others. Regarding the results, it was observed that the comic strips materialize in their panels discourses stemming from discursive formations of race, which are permeated by racist and anti-racist statements; discursive formations of gender, materialized in sexist and anti-sexist speech and images; and class. Furthermore, it was observed through access to memory that the already-said elements present in the chain of interdiscourse are updated through the speeches and drawings produced by the comic book artists, provoking an effect of denunciation and social criticism.