Queerizando o super-heroísmo a partir do Sul em Guadalupe (2012)
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https://doi.org/10.28998/2317-9945.202687.694-721Abstract
This article investigates how the graphic novel Guadalupe (2012) appropriates aspects of Mexican culture to construct a non-conventional, non-hegemonic superhero. Guadalupe is a Brazilian graphic novel, written by Angélica Freitas and illustrated by Odyr Bernardi. Besides a context that would, in itself, warrant a discussion of a decolonial construction of the hero, Muxe Maravilha (Wonderful Trans, in a free translation), from the perspective of the Global South, the work also offers a complex relationship between its characters: a lesbian grandmother, Elvira, a transgender aunt, Minerva Maravilha, and a woman protagonist, Guadalupe. Disrupting the traditional superhero narrative, in Guadalupe, the caped crusader, Muxe Maravilha, emblematizes non-normativity in terms of gender, age, and sexuality from a counter-hegemonic perspective of the Global South.
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