A VIRGEM JURAMENTADA STANA CEROVIĆ: DISCURSO, PODER E VIRILIDADE

Abstract

According to the Foucaultian Discourse Studies, theoretical and methodological foundation of this research, it is necessary to welcome discourse as a practice that derives from the formation of knowledge about subjects and as a place where knowledge and power articulate. In this study, we aim to understand the discourses, analyzing the enunciative sequences, which trigger a reconstruction of the feminine and / or masculine identities and produce the discursive subject Sworn virgins - women who assume the role of men in the western part of the Balkans , keeping the oath of never having sex to thereby meet the demands of a device of forged power at the heart of a patriarchal tradition. We follow the principle that language, verbal and non-verbal, in which discourse materializes and thus gives visibility to the relations of power, produces subjectivities. Therefore, our focus is to analyze, discursively, the effects of meaning and subject that imply in the (re) production of identities and corporal practices of the subject woman that becomes, necessarily, man. Our corpus consists of two materialities: (i) testimony with Stana Cerović, the last sworn virgin of Montenegro, published in the Swiss magazine Das Magazin in 1997, evidencing speeches forged by a device of virility and consanguinity, which highlighted the relevance and the value of the male lineages and the act of honor, as well as Stana's positioning of other women, thereby denying everything that connects her with the female universe; (ii) the report made in Montenegro in 2004 with the aforementioned sworn virgin, whose statements interdiscursively summon a field of memory that allows us to give visibility both to the modes of subjectivation of the female and / or male being as to the subject position of women in a patriarchal society in which "being a man" implies a question of survival. To these materialities that are the main ones for our analysis, will be added the iconography acquired in the several national books and newspapers online, and at the same time some statements of the documentary Like Other Girls Do of the North American author Melissa Potter, in which next to more bedroom female subjects, Stana plays the leading role; the statements that reiterate the socio-historical conditions which led her to become a virgin, and unfold practices that indicate the extent to which she was accepted as a man in Montenegrin society. In the pursuit of the objectives of the research, we turn theoretically and analytically to the whole of this material, focusing fundamentally on the discursive practices that contributed to Stana becoming a vir (a) go which leads us to understand how she becomes subjective as a sworn virgin.