Queer polyphony in LuCroft roleplays: A dialogical analysis of the discouse of Maria Vaquejada in Red Dead Redemption 2

• Autor(a) principal: Montargil, Gilmar
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Remenche, Maria de Lourdes Rossi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/42552
• topic: Bakhtin Circle; Polyphony; Queer Game Studies; Role-playing; LuCroft; Círculo de Bakhtin; Polifonia; Queer Game Studies; Role-playing; LuCroft; Círculo de Bakhtin; Polifonía; Queer Game Studies; Juegos de Rol; LuCroft

Roleplays (RP’s) are performative practices that enable the creation of characters in fictional cities in the space of games (gameplaces). These virtual lives-narratives are energized by diverse social voices, where languages, discourses and worldviews, transmuted in the psychosocial constitution of these representations amplified by cyberculture. In this context, we seek to analyze the dialogism constituting the identity of the character Maria Vaquejada with the hypothesis that the gamer and streamer LuCroft articulates two chronotopes in the architecture of her role-playing: one related to the 19th century of the United States, circumscribed in Red Dead Redemption 2 and , another, interconnected to the experiences of queer bodies (gays, transvestites, drag queens, non-binary, among others) that intersect with the contemporary gamer sphere. The analysis has as an epistemological approach the dialogical perspective of language produced in the writings of the Bakhtin Circle, from which we trigger concepts such as dialogism, polyphony, alterity and chronotope. In the thickening of the discussion undertaken, we also mobilized the ideas of Brait (2006, 2011, 2013), Butler (2003), Muriel and Crawford (2018), Shaw (2011) and Ruberg (2019, 2020). The extraction of data consists, from a diachronic cut, of 20 sequential videos collected on the YouTube channel of LuCroft. The results of the analysis point to varied discourses that mark the different positions of the subject as “bar owner”, “religious”, “woman who fights misogyny”, in addition to a chronotope rework with socio-historical aspects of the Brazilian Northeast of the century 19th and 20th century.