From Brazil to Sweden to Brazil: gender trouble in Fernando Gabeira

Authors

  • Dario Borim Jr University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i33.139920

Keywords:

Butler, Gabeira, homophobia, identity, gender trouble

Abstract

In light of Judith Butler’s insight, including her theories of gender trouble and performativity, this article investigates Brazilian journalist and activist Fernando Gabeira’s trajectory against machismo, homophobia, and gender presumptions. That trajectory spans his formative years, in Minas Gerais (1940s and 50s), the armed resistance to the military dictatorship. in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (1960s), the activism during exile, mostly in Sweden (1970-1979), and another 35 years of sociopolitical engagement, after his return to Brazil. Key to this essay’s central inquiry are Gabeira’s thoughts and experiences in his O que é isso, companheiro? (1979), O crepúsculo do macho (1980), and Entradas e bandeiras (1981).

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Author Biography

  • Dario Borim Jr, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA

    Dário Borim Jr. is full professor of Portuguese and affiliate faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at UMass Dartmouth. Among his books are Crônicas Brasileiras: A Reader, the English translation of Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man, and Perplexidades: raça, sexo, e outras questões sociopolíticas. His writings focus on issues of gender and nationalist ideologies, and on the interplay of literature and music. They have been included in journals from seven countries distinguished volumes, such as Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America, Bodies and Biases: Issues of Sexualities in Hispanic Cultures, and Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes.

Published

2018-09-11

Issue

Section

Dossiê 33: Queerizar o cânone luso-afro-brasileiro

How to Cite

BORIM JR, Dario. From Brazil to Sweden to Brazil: gender trouble in Fernando Gabeira. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 19, n. 1, p. 61–79, 2018. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i33.139920. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/139920.. Acesso em: 14 mar. 2025.