She is amapô of flesh, bones and words: transvestite characters in the contemporary brazilian novel

Abstract

In the words of Candido (2006), literature is a space where there is the possibility of expressing and problematizing social dynamics. Far from discursive neutrality, literature can act both in the confirmation of consensuses and in producing new meanings for reality, to construct ruptures. Contemporary literary production, although diffuse and homogeneous, with new forms of narrative construction and new social actors, which configure the center and the margins, find difficulties in the configuration of the subjects who escape gender norms. Thus, this article proposes to map, investigate and analyze the configurations of violence and subalternity of transvestite characters in the contemporary Brazilian novel (2000-2016). It was noticed that the literary discourse, allied to the discourse of the media and other cultural means, crosses the bodies of the transvestite characters, in order to insert them a single history, that does not represent a subjective and ambiguous whole, product of our time. For this, the article was based on the studies of Judith Butler (2003), Don Kulick (2008), Regina Dalcastagnè (2012), Beatriz Resende (2008) and other theoreticians who were used in The research.

Submissão: 2017-05-26

Aceite: 2017-08-30