Theatrical implications in the performance of Gata Cattana's feminist rap

Abstract

This work questions the role of performance in building and delimiting the poetics of feminist rap. Initially, the meanings of performance will be presented, both in terms of the links between the author and her rap alter ego, and in terms of the links she maintains with her reception. A corpus of four songs by the artist will be used for this analysis, which will be reviewed under the precepts of rhetoric and sociolinguistics from a feminist approach based on the theory of intersectionality in order to delimit how performance influences the artist's reception. The results point to the utilitarian use of rap to impact on her contemporaries, for which the artist employs politropia. On the one hand, she appeals to a young Andalusian audience with a view to safeguarding what is autochthonous and the memory through cathartic identification; on the other hand, she articulates a discourse for its international reception by resorting to the transformative potential of its specific realities.