Meu Corpo é Politico: representações da normatividade e da transgressão

Abstract

By highlighting transgender participation in brazilian cinema, I seek to explore the representations of the bodies of the characters that make up the documentary ​Meu Corpo é Político (2017), investigating the way subjectivities reiterate or subvert the notions of normativity and transgression inside the representation of a hegemonic pattern of gender. For this, I define as a methodology, the analysis of this documentary itself from the keys of normativity and transgression, within the discursive context and the rules that govern gender. As a research problem, I questioned how the existence of these political bodies that move between normativity and transgression can be seen as a manifestation of intelligibility and questioning of gender and social structures. Proposing relations between theorists such as Judith Butler, Richard Miskolci, Guacira Lopes Louro and Karla Bessa, I based this research on studies on gender and performativity, and I bring authors like Dieison Marconi, Fernão Ramos, Robert Stam and Ella Shohat to support film analysis in research and theories about documentaries and audiovisualities. I find as main result of this analysis the perception of the representations of the gender identities of the characters as part of a reiteration of normativity framed in a parodistic notion of originality of cisnormativity.