HERZER'S POETRY IN AN EXERCISE OF DECOLONIZATION OF BODIES

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Walace
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: EntreLetras
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufnt.edu.br/index.php/entreletras/article/view/13208
• topic: Arte poética; Submissão dos corpos vulneráveis; Decolonização dos corpos.; Poetic art; Submission of vulnerable bodies; Decolonization of bodies.

This paper seeks to think about the poetry of the transsexual poet Anderson “Mustache” Herzer (1962-1982), born as Sandra Mara Herzer, or simply Herzer, as a literary creation that reveals an attempt to decolonize the human body. These poems were taken from Herzer's only book, A fall to the top (from 1982, released by Editora Vozes). Our methodology for this paper was to work with a conceptual review based on a selected bibliography and to analyze the meanings of three selected poems. The results reveal that Herzer's poetry shows a clear interrogation mechanism of the socially and morally dominated and subjugated bodies in an attempt at decolonial thinking, although not clearly explicited.