The possibilities of motion: dynamics of storytelling in Mariana Docampo’s narrative

• Autor(a) principal: Punte, María José
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Caracol (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/caracol/article/view/200821
• topic: Mariana Docampo; Teoría Queer; Feminismos; Literatura Argentina; Tango; Mariana Docampo; Queer Theory; Feminisms; Argentine Literature; Tango

In Tango Queer, an essay published in 2018, Mariana Docampo explains vividly her attachment to tango, a dance she learned during many years before she began to teach, and she promote a transcendent change in the way tango is danced: she is one of the founders of a Milonga Queer. In this book Docampo tells the story of how she queerized tango. She includes, also, a “manifesto” to explain the fundaments of this change, a text that can be also useful for feminist epistemologies. Starting point is the idea of tango as a “gender performance” itself. There she sees the possibility for a change of orientation, by subverting one of the pivotal knots of tango: the binary understanding of gender roles. Motion constitutes a keynote in all her novels written between 2007 and 2021, and in her earlier texts as well. There is in all of them a queer perspective, working against a centered and univocal idea of subjectivity. This approach to Docampo’s work will consider the theorization of Teresa de Lauretis and Sara Ahmed.