Theatrical transgenders
practices of freedom in the Brazilian scene
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-3999.v8i1p41-97Abstract
This essay analyzes scenic and discursive strategies in the Brazilian contemporary theater that reveal, according to Adrienne Rich, the “path of compulsory heterosexuality”. The purpose is to observe certain thematic-formal confluences between the respective debates regarding studies of artistic and sexual genres. The intention is not classifying but revealing differences, based on an unstable exercise of juxtaposition between Brazilian theatrical practices and some theoretical frameworks found in queer and feminist studies. The following questions constitute the theoretical background: to what extent can such studies reveal a new approach on theater theories? Is the questioning of normative gender and sexuality systems equivalent to suspicions about artistic taxonomies?
Keywords: Brazilian Contemporary Theater, Queer Studies, Queer Theater, Transphobia.
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