Óh! Fui eu que fiz!: a saga de jovens cosplayers e seus fazeres educativos

Abstract

The present thesis is result of an ethnography of juveniles activities elaborated and lived by young people from Ceara, by producting and acting as cosplayers. Looking for comprehend these activities, were followed ten teenagers during their daily routines in events (SANA), during the period of 2014 to 2016. The theorical supports of the thesis were: Certeau (1995, 2013); Nunes (2015); Ortiz (2007, 2009); Deleuze e Guatarri (1997); Turner (2013); Schechner (2012); Pais (2003, 2005, 2006); Ferreira (2016); Louro (2003, 2008a); Larrosa (2016); Sales (2014, 2016a); Joca (2013), among others. These young cosplayers were insert on a pop culture, which is multitemática and bring to their performances a diversity of caracthers and stories to customize their perform, since the chose of the caracther to present until they customize clothes and accessories. By acting as cosplayers at Ceará, they have references of a cosplayer scene presented on other brasilian states and other countries, like Japan and the USA, however, they can make their own maners of being cosplayer, simbolyzed in their actuations, but, mainly, on the handmades things, producted on the cosplay and all of their accessories. During these process of acting as cosplayer, the teenagers elaborate ritualized and performative acts to get into the cosplayer scene. They live their initiation rites and, by this way, search for acceptance by cosplayers that already are acting on the scene, as well as by the groups. On these caractheres performance, they break with the gender idea for man/women to correspond to their on preferences of how they want to present themselves on stage. By the end, the the choice of the character and the knowledge of its history, passing throught performances that may be elaborated to the customization of the cosplay and its accessories, they announce many knowledge experiences, like with the body, by using their own hands to customize the clothes and demarcate your skills and creativity, by preparing themselves to be on scene. All of these points promote the teenager's ability to change their youthful reality and weave plots that will compose their young sagas inside and outside the cosplayer universe.