Homem ou bruxo em The Witcher: Discurso, Corpo e Subjetivação na adaptação do personagem Geralt de Rívia

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Bini, Felipe
• Orientador(a): Witzel, Denise Gabriel
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras (Mestrado)
• Departamento: Unicentro::Departamento de Letras
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Estudos Discursivos Foucaultianos; Corpo; Subjetivação; The Witcher; Geralt
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Foucaultian Discoursive studies; Body; Subjectivation; The Witcher; Geralt
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES
• Link de acesso: http://tede.unicentro.br:8080/jspui/handle/jspui/1921

In 2015, Polish video game company CDProjektRED (CDPR) released the third game in The Witcher series, selling over ten million copies on its first day and becoming one of the most acclaimed games of the decade. One of the effects of this success was to boost sales of the books by Andrzej Sapkowski on which the game was based, also gaining international success. Both media feature the witcher Geralt of Rivia, part of a group of mutated men trained to hunt and kill monsters that plague their world. In the process of adapting Geralt from one material to another, we see regularities and discontinuities that subject him sometimes in one way, sometimes in another. We ask ourselves then: who is/are Geralts? To answer this, the present research proposes to investigate the modes of subjectivation of the character Geralt of Rívia in the materialities of books and video games, looking for the regularities and discontinuities that are updated via discursive memory. We describe our corpus in order to specify what it is about when analyzing literature or video games from a discursive perspective, cutting out statements from the first three books of the series, as well as from the three games, from artbooks that discuss the creation of the character for this media and an announcement trailer for the third game. We make use of Foucaultian Discursive Studies as a theoretical-methodological contribution by which it is understanded the role of discourse in the historical production of subjectivities, as well as conceptualize the effects of discourse on bodies, especially considering the process of genderification from Gender Studies, mainly through the contributions of Scott (2019), Butler (2019), Connell (2013), Corbin, Courtine, and Vigarello (2019). We analyzed the body taken as a significant matter that produces meanings, in the subjectivation of this character, and we mapped the place of the witcher in this discursive plot, pointing to subject-positions in the statements monster, predator, witch and endriago, activating and updating discourses on masculinity, virility, violence and the history of women who are strategically distributed in different ways in each media.