Amor, placer, rabia y revolución: apontamentos sobre a noção de pessoas em Mariam Pessah

Abstract

This article seeks, through the life narrative of mariam pessah and her understandings about the expression of the lesbian experience, to make some notes on the notion of a person mobilized by mariam using as references Marcel Mauss (2003), Louis Dumont (1966) and Clifford Geertz (1989). To do so, it was necessary to observe how the notion of the modern and Western individual theorized by Louis Dumont (1966) is an analytical tool that allows us to understand two aspects of the person in modern Western culture. The first is the constitution of the subject as a bearer of rights, freedom and autonomy and the second, the subjective production that places gender experiences as central factors in the construction of these identities. mariam pessah is a writer, photographer, artivist and lesbian who, in her career and writings, addresses pertinent elements that dialogue with repertoires of significant symbols (Clifford Geertz, 1989) mobilized in a broad way, by lesbian groups in Brazil and other countries. For this undertaking, from multiple fields and data collection techniques, I seek to locate her trajectory and writings that allow us to understand the notion of a person mobilized by mariam. In total, I carried out a virtual ethnography that constitutes entry into the field, a narrative interview via email correspondence that allowed me to trace chronologically and narratively its trajectory and a participant observation in a face-to-face Soiree that was invited by writer and where I got to meet her in person.