Can a Transvestite Love? Conjugality of Transvestite Characters in Brazilian Narratives of the XX Century
This article discusses the relationships between the transvestite characters in Brazilian literature of the XX Century and the other male characters with whom they establish conjugality or affective and sexual ties. We choose two literary texts to contextualize this discussion: the short story “The...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repositorio: | Letras & letras (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/62177 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/letraseletras/article/view/62177 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Personagens travestis Literatura brasileira Conjugalidade Masculinidade hegemônica Transvestite characters Brazilian literature Conjugality Hegemonic masculinity |
| Sumario: | This article discusses the relationships between the transvestite characters in Brazilian literature of the XX Century and the other male characters with whom they establish conjugality or affective and sexual ties. We choose two literary texts to contextualize this discussion: the short story “The great attraction” (A grande atração), by Raimundo Magalhães Junior, published in 1936 and the novel A different woman (Uma mulher diferente), by Cassandra Rios, published in 1965. Both express conflicts between the transvestite experience of the main characters and the hegemonic masculinity of their partners. The theoretical framework used focuses on research in the field of Gender Studies and draws from Brazilian transvestite ethnographies by Pelúcio (2009) and Silva (2007), in the literary studies of Candido (2007), Fernandes and Schneider (2017) and the historical routes of Green (2000) and Albuquerque Jr (2010). |
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