Corpo político: variações em torno do corpo e de Amora, de Natália Borges Polesso

Abstract

The public space - the place where we live - needs to be seen as a possible space for occupation, living and participation in the social life of all of those that are in there. However, this space is occupied in distinct ways by different bodies with multiple possibilities of a manifestation of desire. If some of these bodies have the privilege of the social and political participation - even living -, there are others that dwell in a space in the condition of undesirable, of the bodies left behind, seen as the trash that must be discarded, for example, the lesbian, which is the main object of reflection of this text. This movement of reflection makes the social space a place of conflict, of the production of a politics for the existence, of a fight with feinting, a fight for the right to survive as much as for the right to be heard. This thesis has an objective to weave some variations around the concept of corporeity (either of the human being or of the literary work) focusing on the technologies responsible to fixate corporeity in a patriarchal model and, as a consequence, to expel from its idea every other form contrary to it. With this in mind, it is important to review some concepts of the Greco-Roman and the Judeo-Christian culture in regard of their responsibility to install a docility, a large scale discipline of the, as much as we need to articulate the concepts co-opted by the bourgeoisie, like public space and democracy, with the objective to remove these ideas from that dominion and extend them to all those that occupy the public space. The literary work analyzed here is the book Amora by Natalia Borges Polesso (2020), in which the characters are lesbians. This book is introduced in the public space as a war machine, as a minor literature, whose movement is to produce cracks in this system that reduces corporeity, a book that let the bodies flow to their immanent potency, to let them open themselves to their possibilities of becoming.