Regularidades e dispersões no discurso de Oprah Winfrey

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to analyze Oprah Winfrey’s discourse at the Golden Globe awards in 2018, in order to understand how the black woman’s place of speech is established from the subject positions constituted by regularities and dispersions in motion. Therefore, our basis is on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Discourse Analysis allied to Michel Pêcheux’s constructs, with regard to the discursive functioning, and in the archeological studies of Michel Foucault, mobilizing some concepts such as power relations, interdiction, objectification, subjectivation. To this theoretical reference basis, we articulate the conditions of production of Oprah’s discourse, constantly crossed by power relations. We analyze, therefore, the elements that allow us to understand the displacement of black women, regarding marginalization, racial segregation, racism and acts of extreme violence, emphasizing sexual violence. We consider Oprah’s discourse, as a place where the discourse tends to remains by the regularities and rupture by the dispersions.