Voice, literature, politics and others travestilities of trans-national body

Abstract

From the questions “is literature transvestite desire? The desire of literature imposes travestimento?”, made by Ana Chiara (2004), for whom the critic “can not forget in the travestimento the game, the trickery, the artífice”, this essay investigates the representation of the transvestite in the popular song. Words of the Brazilian artists Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Erasmo Carlos, Aldir Blanc, Moacyr Luz, Linn da Quebrada; of the Portuguese Pedro Abrunhosa; and English Sting will be analyzed comparatively to narratives (especially books of the Franco-Cuban Severo Sarduy) in which the transvestite appears like protagonist. The objective is to think the ethical and aesthetic marks entered by the transvestite in the national body. This inscription defines the impact of the image in international circulation of Brazil, marked by the plurilinguism and crossing of borders. To do so, it is necessary to discuss the term “transvestites type exportation” (TREVISAN, 2000) and the concept of androgyny (ELIADE, 1999; WOOLF, 2014).