SONGS OF REEXISTENCE: THE PERFORMATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF RACE AND GENRE OF THE GROUP TAMBORES DE SAFO
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The present study, understand language as a practice, based on the work of Wittgenstein (1999), Austin (1990) and Bakhtin (2004), distancing itself from others researches that adopts essentialist conceptions of language, or works with the idea of a subject idealized, individualized and abstracted from their ways of living and their language games. Therefore, adopting the theoretical perspective of Cultural Pragmatics (Alencar, 2011), this work was developed from the ethnography of the group Tambores de Safo with the purpose of understanding the (re)construction and (re) affirmation of performative gender identities and race of the group members in their language games public acts. The analysis of the ways of living in the language of the group members allows us to understand that the gender identities and, mainly, the racial identities of the group members, ritualized by the ways of dressing and the color of their skin, are, above all, a political position
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