Da lógica binária aos estudos Queer: sujeitos e performatividade em revista nos cordéis

Abstract

This research presents a new intended target on issues involving gender and human sexuality in characters and gender performances which exist concurrently with heterosexuality in chapbooks. So, we researched a collection of 35.094 (thirty five thousand and ninety four) chapbooks, which formed a corpus of 28 (twenty eight) titles which present gender and sexuality forms and representations that diverge from heteronormativity. The goal of this study was to realize that disparate sexualities in relation to binary logic were already articulated and represented in this kind of literature. Such representations did notice that the terms advocated by Queer Studies were already on the scene through literature, even before its strongest scholars’ propositions. Chap-books were analyzed from the title to the entangled stories, having Queer Studies and Social Representations Theories as the main theoretical underpinning for corpus appreciation. At the end of the research, it was confirmed that models traditionally defended by heterosexuality (male/female) are not the only ones represented by the chap-books. Other genres and sexualities are present in a literature particularly recognized as traditional and heterosexist, but sometimes not in a prejudicial manner. Thus, as a result, logic may be a queer way analysis of Chap-book Literature through a diverting analysis on thematic and ideological rigidity commonly associated with it.