HERZER'S POETRY IN AN EXERCISE OF DECOLONIZATION OF BODIES

This paper seeks to think about the poetry of the transsexual poet Anderson “Mustache” Herzer (1962-1982), born as Sandra Mara Herzer, or simply Herzer, as a literary creation that reveals an attempt to decolonize the human body. These poems were taken from Herzer's only book, A fall to the top...

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Autor: Rodrigues, Walace
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT)
Repositorio:EntreLetras
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.ufnt.acessoacademico.com.br:article/13208
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufnt.edu.br/index.php/entreletras/article/view/13208
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Arte poética; Submissão dos corpos vulneráveis; Decolonização dos corpos.
Poetic art; Submission of vulnerable bodies; Decolonization of bodies.
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Sumario:This paper seeks to think about the poetry of the transsexual poet Anderson “Mustache” Herzer (1962-1982), born as Sandra Mara Herzer, or simply Herzer, as a literary creation that reveals an attempt to decolonize the human body. These poems were taken from Herzer's only book, A fall to the top (from 1982, released by Editora Vozes). Our methodology for this paper was to work with a conceptual review based on a selected bibliography and to analyze the meanings of three selected poems. The results reveal that Herzer's poetry shows a clear interrogation mechanism of the socially and morally dominated and subjugated bodies in an attempt at decolonial thinking, although not clearly explicited.