Performances in a narrative by Sonia Coutinho

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Caio Antônio de Medeiros Nóbrega Nunes
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Azerêdo, Genilda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/article/view/31086
• topic: gender studies; reflexive narrative; post-modernism.; estudos de gênero; narrativa reflexiva; pós-modernismo

 In this article, we suggest the concepts of performance (Butler, 1990) and narrative performativity (Berns, 2013) as analytical tools for reflecting upon Toda Lana Turner tem seu Johnny Stompanato, a short story by the Brazilian writer Sonia Coutinho. A double movement will guide our analysis: we present an articulation between a perspective that takes into account the gender constitution of the characters and a narratological approach towards the reflexive/metafictional form which marks the composition of the short story. By making use of an ironical, intertextual and multi-layered style of writing, Sonia Coutinho constructs a narrative that proposes different discursive agencies in relation to the many instances in which characters’ subjectivities take place. In this sense, we consider this short story as having a deep mark of what we might understand as post-modern literature, for the multiplicity of spaces, characters and times is characteristic of a collective agency between reality and fiction.