“O amor ainda está aqui”: processos de subjetivação, microterritórios e corpos em narrativas de sexualidades em Campina Grande-PB.

Abstract

This study is about sexualities narratives in the intertwining of knowledge and experiences of two protagonists in contemporary urban scene of Campina GrandePB, the transvestite Valquíria Montini and Maria de Calú, owner of the first gay bar in this city. I chose to work with interviews, analyze these narratives - that are in temporalities that crisscross between the 1940s to the present time - the sexuality studied on aspects of experience, spaces and aesthetic transformations of bodies. We also analyzed the elaborations of themselves, the affections and ways of life that occur in the interactions of the subjects that take place in different spaces in Campina Grande and other cities. Finally, we analyze the narratives of their own bodies, the notions of being a transvestite and the multiplicity of experiences that allow subversion of identities as fixed and naturalized. To weave new perspectives about these interactions, we use the theoretical dialogues by Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau and Gilles Deleuze.