Slam: the production of self-narratives on digital platforms

Abstract

This work aims to discuss the construction of the slam genre in digital platforms, in the understanding that it is a genre that works with oral poetry in peripheral communities and that uses digital platforms for its dissemination. In this way, we seek to understand how spaces in which contents take place, and which are reconfigured through the digital context, allowing women, specifically those from the group Slam das Minas de São Paulo, to exercise certain authorship, sharing their experiences and denouncing identity issues that concern women, black people and the socially underprivileged. Therefore, through Foucault's discourse studies and the methodological device of Discourse Analysis of the French perspective, with the theoretical support of identity, decoloniality, racial and feminist studies, two discursive clippings that we undertake on slam presentations of the mentioned group, posted on their Facebook page in 2018, were presented, which configures this work as a case study. The results of the study and analysis clarify how the production of “Peripheral Literature” in slam battles, carried out by women from the periphery and disseminated on digital platforms, can bring some traces of their identity representations of resistance, which are intrinsically related to race, gender and social class.