The Gisberta case in the novel Pão de Açúcar, by Afonso Reis Cabral: representations around a transgender woman

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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.i2.208708

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representation, ex-centric, masculinities, transgender, Afonso Reis Cabral

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The article offers a perspective on gender representations linked to masculinity, power and marginality in the novel Pão de Açúcar, which deals with the fictionalization of a hate crime that occurred in Portugal in 2006. In that year, Gisberta Salce Júnior, a transgender brazilian woman was murdered by a group of teenage offenders in the ruins of a large supermarket chain. The objective here is to understand the representations of the ex-centric subjects that are in the novel, mainly the narrator’s view of the transgender character Gisberta, through the theoretical framework of Stuart Hall (2016), Pierre Bourdieu (2002), Michel Foucault (2013), Berenice Bento (2015), among others.

 

KEYWORDS: representation; ex-centric; masculinities; transgender; Afonso Reis Cabral.

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  • Rafaella Cristina Alves Teotônio, Universidade de Pernambuco

     

     

  • João Pedro da Cunha de Almeida, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

    Master's student in Theory of Literature at the Federal University of Pernambuco- PPGL UFPE. Graduated in Letters (degree in English and Portuguese) at the University of Pernambuco - Campus Mata Norte. He first worked between 2018 and 2019 in the Language and Informatics Program at the University of Pernambuco (PROLINFO) as an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher. In addition, stints as a substitute teacher in the area of ​​languages, with an emphasis on literature, and as a ENEM's copywriter at Colégio Motivo (2019-2021) were important for today's professional performance. He also lectured in the course of Reading and Introduction to Literature at Colégio Boa Viagem (2021-2022. Currently, he is a researcher of the ERAS Group (Studies on Representations, Alterities and Subjectivities). He has experience in literature and English, and also integrates the PIBIC project entitled the representations of women in Valter Hugo Mãe's novels.

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Published

2023-11-30

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2023): 100 Years of Sodom Literature

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Dossiê Especial: 100 anos da literatura de Sodoma

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TEOTÔNIO, Rafaella Cristina Alves; ALMEIDA, João Pedro da Cunha de. The Gisberta case in the novel Pão de Açúcar, by Afonso Reis Cabral: representations around a transgender woman. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 24, n. 2, p. 303–333, 2023. DOI: 10.11606/va.i2.208708. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/208708.. Acesso em: 12 may. 2024.