Poética do corpo : análise da experiência gênero dissidente de Anderson Herzer em ‘a queda para o alto’

Abstract

In this work, I propose to analyze the book A queda para o alto, from the young poet Anderson Herzer, considering the autobiographical elements (Lejeune, 2008) written in his Depoimento and the poetics and autoficional elements presented in the Parte II of the book. From the perspective of a decolonial feminism (Lugones, 2020) and the queer theory (Butler, 2018), I seek to explore the intersections between these theories (Pereira, 2015), which allow me to analyze within the proposed framework issues of gender, class and the author’s social condition as a Febem intern: elements that are part of his context and that construct his writing. This research inevitably faces the unfortunate reality of the literary field from which I choose to investigate: besides the fact of an autobiography not being, in many cases, considered “real literature” to be analyzed, a gender-dissident author who writes about themselves and their story are often denied the right to have a literary work (Alós, 2021). In this context, the use of the autobiographical genre emerges as an important element in the construction of a representative literature of minorities from the 1980s. The voice that conducts the story, full of meaning, is not reduced here to merely a narrator or lyrical self: both in the narration and in the poems, there is a reverberation of the author’s own voice and desires (Moura, 2024; Salgado, 2018; Pamplona, 2017). Therefore, I rely on the contributions also from Amara Moira (2018) and Benjamin Neves (2023), among others, to analyze the author’s life context and to reflect on his writing conditions as well as on the constant reaffirmation of his identity.