BODY, SEX AND GENDER REPRESENTATIONS IN THE POETRY OF BIANCA LAFROY

Abstract

The aim of this article is to map the forms of representation of female/male and body/sex/gender categories in the book Embrulho líquido (2012), by Bianca Lafroy. Based on the body representations as an “abject body” (BUTLER, 2013) and pharmaco-pornographic body (PRECIADO, 2008), we intend to problematize these categories in the poetic construction being addressed. Using critical-literary analysis of the poetic text and its relationship with the social context as a methodology, we seek to conduct interdisciplinary dialogues, in particular with History. We thus conclude that the poetry of Bianca Lafroy contains a number of body, sex and gender representations that make exchanges, approach, refuse and dialogue, paradoxically, with heteronormativity while constituting a literary performance whose stage  is poetry.