O pós-armário em vídeo-narrativas confessionais no YouTube: um estudo brasileiro-estadunidense

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Venan Lucas de Oliveira Alencar
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Brasil; FALE - FACULDADE DE LETRAS; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Linguísticos; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Análise do Discurso; Narrativa de vida; Confissão; Gênero e Sexualidade; Pós-armário; YouTube (Recurso eletrônico); Análise do discurso; Identidade de gênero; Homossexuais masculinos – Identidade; Narrativas pessoais
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/37704

The post-coming out period has been debated by different researchers coming from variated fields of knowledge as something that may shed some light on issues regarding the life experiences of gay men. Aiming to seize the socio-discursive nuances of this problem, we intend to analyze eight videos available on YouTube which the main subject would cover this period of these stigmatized subjects. We divided our sample analyzed in two groups: one composed of four videos whose narrators were Brazilians, and the other comprising four videos whose narrators were Americans. Our goal is to understand how the life narratives of the studied subjects constitute a confessional situation, according to Foucault (1988, 2006,2009); to make a contrastive analysis considering both verbal and non-verbal languages used by the narrators from Brazil and the United States; to investigate the effects of a homophobic culture and minority stress in the narrating-subjects by establishing analysis categories; and to test the suitability of the selected Foucaldian concepts to the sample, as well as the elements on the Image Analysis Grid proposed by Mendes (2013). The thesis we sustain is rooted in the idea that gay men who have come out would use life narratives with a confessional caracter in social media as YouTube as a way to constantly work on themselves. As our hypothesis, we should highlight that the construction of a narrative form in a confessional direction is actually the result of a historical imperative to seek the truth in oneself. This practice was continuously modified over time since ancient Philosophy until it reached a scientific approach. We opted to use a multidisciplinary methodology which included the Image Analysis Grid by Mendes, the theory of Michel Foucault, mainly the books that cover confession as a whole, Gender and Sexuality Studies, matched with Foucauldian studies conducted by Halperin (1995, 2012), Preciado (2008, 2020), Bruno (2013) and Han (2020), for instance, as well as the studies on life narratives conducted by Machado (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016). In conclusion, the subjects analyzed, for both countries, touch very similarly on homophobic and hegemonic culture issues, and make resembling uses of verbal and non-verbal languages to achieve their communicative goals. For this reason, they project self-images in search of distancing from stereotypes, but at the same time, they question the validity of some imaginaries regarding the incipient issue that this study touches on.