THE MATERNITY DISPOSITIF IN ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER: ENTEXTUALIZATIONS AND SCALAR PROCESSES

In this article, we understand motherhood as a dispositif that shapes social life and gives support to the nuclear family, but that is subject to mutations and reappropriations. Our purpose is to think about the extent to which the film All about my mother, by denaturalizing maternity performances,...

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Published inAlfa Vol. 64; no. 1
Main Authors Gonzalez, Clarissa, Lopes, Luiz Paulo Da Moita
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Universidade Estadual Paulista 01.01.2020
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Summary:In this article, we understand motherhood as a dispositif that shapes social life and gives support to the nuclear family, but that is subject to mutations and reappropriations. Our purpose is to think about the extent to which the film All about my mother, by denaturalizing maternity performances, as well as those of gender and sexuality, stimulates reflexivity on this subject and leads to possible resignifications. We have selected two moments of the textual trajectory (BLOMMAERT, 2005) the film has been following since 1999 and submitted them to the analysis of the entextualization (SILVERSTEIN; URBAN, 1996; BAUMAN; BRIGGS, 1990) and scalar processes (CARR; LEMPERT, 2016) mobilized in order to gauge such reflexivity. We have observed that a large part of the queer destabilizations that the film narrative promotes inspire positions in new entextualizations that, in most cases, ratify such destabilizations and manage to expand the concept of motherhood beyond biological and instinctive associations, which prevail in common sense (SCAVONE, 2001 ; FIDALGO, 2003; PINHEIRO, 2014). KEYWORDS: Almodovar. Maternity performances. Dispositif. Scalar processes. Entextualization. Neste artigo, entendemos a maternidade como um dispositivo que molda condutas e da sustentacao a familia nuclear, mas que esta sujeito a mutacoes e reapropriacoes. Propomo-nos a pensar em que medida o filme 'Tudo sobre minha mae', ao desnaturalizar performances de maternidade, bem como as de genero e sexualidade, estimula a reflexividade sobre o tema e enseja possiveis ressignificacoes. Para isso, selecionamos dois momentos mais recentes da trajetoria textual (BLOMMAERT, 2005) que o filme vem percorrendo desde 1999 e os submetemos a analise, que privilegia, em termos de construios teorico-analiticos, entextualizacoes (SILVERSTEIN; URBAN, 1996; BAUMAN; BRIGGS, 1990) e processos escalares (BLOMMAERT, 2010; CARR; LEMPERT, 2016) para analisar tal reflexividade. O que observamos e que grande parte das desestabilizacoes queer que a narrativa filmica promove inspiram posicionamentos, em novas entextualizacoes, que, muitas vezes, ratificamnas e logram expandir o conceito de maternidade para alem das associacoes biologicoinstintivas, que prevalecem no senso comum (SCAVONE, 2001; FIDAEGO, 2003; PINHEIRO, 2014). PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Almodovar: Performances de maternidade. Dispositivo. Processos escalares. Entextualizacao.
ISSN:0002-5216
1981-5794
DOI:10.1590/1981-5794-ell313