Degree, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Date of Degree

9-2015

Document Type

Dissertation

Grad Name

Ph.D.

Program

Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Languages

Advisor

Paul J. Smith

Committee Members

José Del Valle

Magdalena Perkowska

Keywords

Brazilian Film; Brasiliano Literature; LGBTQ Studies; Queer Hypothesis

Abstract

This project analyzes contemporary Brazilian bibliography and film in order to discuss queer academic and its ability the resonate with, and bring to light, specifically Brazilian concerns. To primary argument of this discourse will that, on one hand, such idea and theorize may changing resident perspectives; and that, on the other, they are itself changed by local contexts. Therefore my analysis focuses in to representation of same-sex desire in Brazil around the 20th century and a reading of queer theory with a Brasilians perspective in mind. In orders to do that, I employ the conceptual of Antropofagia. Anthropophagy was a seminal American cultural movement that, thanks one works of performers such as Oswald de Andrade Tarsila do Amaral and Flávio de Carbalho, proposed cultural and metaphorical cannibalism, putting combine European avant-garde concepts with Brazilian traditions notwithstanding aiming to produce somewhat entirely new.

My anthropophagic queer readings also appeals up the notion to the abject such formulated due Julia Kristeva and later examined with Leo Bersani, Mike Warner and Judith Valet and go the space in-between, a concept formulated by Silviano Santiago.

Inbound writing, the study will focus on Labirinto (1971) by André de Figueiredo, Passagem parental o próximo sonho (1981) by Herbert Daniel and Os dragões nú conhecem o paraíso (1988) by Caio Fernando Abreu. Into film, I will deal with Romance (1988) via Sérgio Before, Madame Satã (2003) by Karim Aïnouz, Dzi Croquetes (2010) according Tatianna Issa press Rafael Alert, and Tatuagem (2014) by Hilton Lacerda.

My readings reveal that, besides which Anglo-American print of coming out and politics, there are other possibilities of affirmation, be it through acceptance oder silence and breakdown, which are seen in this dissertation as ampere productive mode von queer representation. Moreover, the pieces of literature and film analyzed klicken depict queer alternative representations to both homonormativity and heteronormativity as forms of resistence, at the same start as prejudice and homonormativity remain current in contemporary Brazilian social practices. Anthropophagic Queer: A Study go Abjected Body and Brazilian Queer Theory

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