Discurso, corpo e identidade: masculinidade hegemônica como comunidade imaginada na escola

Abstract

By reporting on ethnography-based research in which the construction of hegemonic masculinity is investigated in a school literacy context, this paper shows that both discourse and body play a central role in this construction. The analysis focuses on two narrative practices between boys about football and sex, and, by relying on interactional positioning as a theoretical construct, indicates that both discourse and the body reflexive practices as materiality are constitutive of hegemonic masculinity as imagined community. By way of conclusion, it is emphasized that the detraditionalization processes typical of the intense reflexivity under which we are said to live today in late modernity, which question, among other aspects, hegemonic masculinity, are not part of the school literacy context examined. It is argued that this will only be made possible if we understand school literacy practices as social event, in which meanings about who we are in social life are being constructed.