Travestismo literário : poética de si em "o parque das irmãs magníficas"

Abstract

The general aim of this study is to analyze the constitution and presentation of trans bodies, identity and territory in the novel “The Park of the Magnificent Sisters”, by the Argentine transvestite author Camila Villada. The literary work presents a reinvented literature of transvestism, presenting the movements of trans bodies in spaces. In this way, we seek to explore the novel in terms of the representations of trans bodies, the identities present in the territories and the elements of autofiction present in the narrative. In order to achieve this goal, we have taken as our basis the theoretical assumptions of the theory of liberation ethics, a decolonial philosophy developed by Enrique Dussel (2012;2016), an approach that allows us to develop the reflexive awareness that presents the poetics produced in the Latin American context, bearing in mind that transmodern criticism is necessary for the study of contemporary Latin American poetics and narratives, which are inserted from the periphery to the center, with the periphery as a place of knowledge-knowing. We also took as a basis the concepts of contrassexuality by Preciado (2019), according to which, in the context of the contrassexual contract, the body is understood as enunciation, and not by sex; in the constitutions of body and gender for Bento (2017); in the works of Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda (2019; 2020), regarding Queer and gender-related aspects; Letícia Nascimento (2021) and Jesus (2014) to address Transfeminism; in Josefina Ludmer (2013), considering that bodies are attached to territory, an intersection of bodies in movement, which can be seen through fictions. And in Kingler (2023), to support us in aspects related to autofiction and self-writing.