Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (Oct 2021)
Stars are born to shine: the expansion of frontiers in narrating oneself transgender under the auspicious of Brazilian democracy (1998-2008)
Abstract
The autobiographical production of transgender authorship in contemporary Brazil is one of the aspects of transgender literature that, since 2010, has gained more vitality in literary space. In this paper, I will focus on autobiographical novels published between 1998 and 2008, all of which came to being as rebel enunciations against the status presented, be it by professional success, as in the works of Ruddy Pinho (1998, 2007), be it by the activism, as it happens in the work of Claudia Wonder (2008). Both works promote the dignity of transgender existence through self-affirmation and/or self-identification.
