Quando a palavra veste o corpo uma análise de Neca: romance em bajubá, de Amara Moira

Abstract

This study analyzes the representation of travestis in the opuses of Amara Moira, focusing on the book Neca: romance em bajubá (2024). The research investigates how the author articulates issues of gender, body, and language within a narrative that blurs the boundaries between the real and the fictional. The novel employs bajubá – a linguistic code created by travestis – as an aesthetic and political strategy, granting the work a character of resistance and identity affirmation. The study draws on the contributions of the feminist and Black movements, which enable an understanding of the intersections of gender, race, and class in the formation of dissident subjectivities, as well as an analysis of how travesti literature engages with other forms of struggle for visibility and recognition. We mobilize the concepts of anthropophagy, proposed by Oswald de Andrade (1928), escrevivência, formulated by Conceição Evaristo (2020), and marronagem, developed by Dénètem Touam Bona (2019). These categories allow for an analysis of practices of appropriation, resistance, and creation, showing how literature can transform lived experiences into narratives that subvert social and cultural norms. Finally, the work is analyzed from the perspective of autofiction, based on the categories described by Anna Faedrich (2015), investigating the relationships between subject, authorship, and the fictionalization of the self. The theoretical foundation of the study relies on contributions from scholars such as Simone de Beauvoir (2009), Carla Akotirene (2023), Guacira Lopes Louro (2022), Letícia Nascimento (2023), João Silvério Trevisan (2018), Judith Butler (2023), Camila Sosa Villada (2024), among others who contributed to these reflections