CAVALCANTE, L. M.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2333847296671458; CAVALCANTE, Laís Medeiros.
Résumé:
The paper aims to analyze , how transgender identities were produced , expressed and
re-signified by cartoonist Laertes Coutinho in the first decade of this century , more
specifically in the period between the years 2009 and 2013 . Therefore, the research was
developed through such strips cartoonist produces and publishes on its website called
Total Muriel . It will attack also interviews that yielded the same television programs ,
crossing the lines of his experiences with the plots developed by its characters .
Accordingly, it was thought to analyze the categories of gender, body , sexuality and
IDs mutate over time and in certain areas, thereby transforming subjectifications the
subjects worked , transgender . Thus , as Laertes Coutinho problematized the subjective
identity and bodily transformations which trans subjects are submitted and submit , as
well as what conditions were necessary , and what barriers were found to make these
processes happen . Thus , there was a dialogue with the theoretical framework of Queer
Theory , especially Judith Butler , to think gender issues and abjection of such subjects .
Still worked with Stuart Hall for the analysis of the relation to the processes of
identification, Guacira Lopes Blonde , among others . Yet appropriated the understanding of the concept of the frontier used by Deleuze and the epistemology of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick produced by cabinet.
