os dezenove milhões de nomes de maria camaleão : pedro lemebel no brasil colonial-técno-digital-ficcional do século vintchy-um

Abstract

this work proposes a ‘transvested’ reading of the pedro lemebel’s text "the million names of maria chameleon", in articulation with other artistic-theoretical references. two texts are developed in parallel – one by nestor in the main body of the text and another by debora in the footnotes – to dialogue about queer/cuir bodies and their performative naming processes as a political strategy for existence and survival. queer/cuir aesthetics and politics are activated as an operation to appropriate violent discourses addressed to dissident bodies, in an effort to destabilize the norms. the text ends with a baptismal art exercise: a new section for the list of nicknames presented by lemebel in his original text, with an autofictional update of names, adjectives and references that stand out in the experience of dissident cuir bodies in a southern interior in colonized brazil inserted in the techno-digital-fiction of the twentch-one century.