Por uma literatura queer: operações textuais e tradutórias

Abstract

This work develops a theoretical reflection on queer literary text, understood as a specific discourse constituted by language operations that destabilize norms of gender, sexuality, and subjectivity. Based on the concept of queer text formulated by Costa, Pires, and Alves (2023), this research shifts its focus to the specificity of literary discourse, defining the queer literary text not through thematic or identity-based criteria, but through recurring modes of textualization, systematized into three analytical axes: sociolect, dialogism, and emphatics. Within a discursive conception of language, the literary text is understood as a historically situated utterance, which implies the inclusion of translated literary text as a constitutive part of the field of queer literature, rather than merely as derivative or secondary instances. In this sense, translation is approached as a process of ideological retextualization, in which the aesthetic and political effects of the queer text can be reconfigured, strained, or erased. Grounded in a theoretical-analytical approach, and supported by a broad corpus of literary texts and translated literary texts, mobilized in an illustrative and argumentative manner throughout the discussion, without constituting a closed case study, the analysis draws on a critical review of literature, queer theory and translation, and the philosophy of language of the Bakhtin Circle, with emphasis on authors such as Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, Lawrence Venuti, and Mikhail Bakhtin. By proposing a theory of queer literary text, this thesis seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of the relationships between literature, language, and dissidence, as well as to a critical conception of translation as a discursive, aesthetic, and political practice.