Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Chapter 8. The adaptability of becoming
2020; John Benjamins Publishing Company; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1075/pbns.319.08fer
ISSN0922-842X
AutoresDina María Martins Ferreira, Jony Kellson de Castro Silva,
Tópico(s)Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
ResumoAbstract This chapter draws upon Karina Buhr’s image of becoming-junglehood in order to contribute to a discussion of the pragmatics of adaptability. Buhr is a Brazilian feminist singer who is interested in recontextualizing terms of a male-dominated tradition on more affirmative grounds. She thus adapts semiotic forms – verbal language and her bodily performance – as disruptive forms, and thereby looks for more liberating grounds of language use. Theoretically, the chapter nuances Buhr’s rationalizations by engaging with Walter Benjamin’s formulations about art and its mechanical reproducibility; with Derrida’s iterability of language; and with Deleuze and Guattari’s articulations of assemblage, subjectivation, and becoming. The paper finally critiques a metaphysics of unity by identifying processes of rupture and adaptability in Buhr’s discursive practices of becoming-junglehood.
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