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Performativität, Reembodiment und Auratisierung: Multimodale Diskursstrategien des testimonialen Diskurses in QUE BOM TE VER VIVA (1989) von Lúcia Murat und SUBVERSIVOS von André Diniz (1999ff.)

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The following contribution, which combines multimodal media analysis with a cultural-scientific approach, examines the medialization of testimonial dis-courses based on two examples: the performative documentary QUE TE VER VIVA (1989) by Lúcia Murat and the comic series SUBVERSIVOS (1999ff.) by André Diniz. Both are about sexualized torture of female members of the re-sistance against the Brazilian military dictatorship, both process testimonial discourses and combine this negotiation with a reflective aesthetic transgres-sion of the prevailing memory discourses of their time. The mediatization of testimonies on torture generally raises questions of media aesthetics and me-dia ethics concerning the limits of what can be said and represented in media discourses. In our two case studies – which are connected through intermedial references and aesthetic transpositions, where narrative and pictorial motifs from Murat's documentary appear in the comic series – multimodality plays a key role. As a set of discursive strategies, multimodality helps evoke an expe-riential spectrum beyond what can be said and what can be visualized. The cross-media comparison draws the attention to the interaction of different se-miotic modalities, which construct the embodiments of suffering and traumatic experience in testimonial narratives. As these strategies are embedded in the ways in which testimonial discourse models and reflects complex world refer-ences, which are situated at the borders of subjectivity, facticity and performa-tivity of cultural memory, this contribution also shows how referential modali-ties can be a useful dimension to expand the scope of possible applications for multimodal media analysis.

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Thies, Sebastian; de Melo, Suzana Vasconcelos: Performativität, Reembodiment und Auratisierung: Multimodale Diskursstrategien des testimonialen Diskurses in QUE BOM TE VER VIVA (1989) von Lúcia Murat und SUBVERSIVOS von André Diniz (1999ff.). In: IMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft, Jg. 14 (2018), Nr. 2, S. 137-163.http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16408
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