This faughter is funny

the relationship between comicity na sexuality in the text ‘Greta Garbo, quem diria, acabou no Irajá’

Authors

  • Caio César Silva Rocha Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei (UFSJ)
  • Alberto Ferreira da Rocha Júnior UFSJ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i17.47317

Abstract

This article analyzes how the ever present comicality in Fernando Mello’s play Greta Garbo, quem diria, acabou no Irajá (1974) acts as an important political device in the debate on sexuality issues. Written and staged during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, the play depicts a conflicting love relationship between two type characters: Pedro, a very
effeminate gay, and Renato, a young country man who, by a trick of fate, becomes a hustler. In this regard, this paper problematizes the political nature of the comic which, in Mello’s text, acts as a valuable element for giving visibility and empowering the queer character (Pedro), as well as gay love, in a serious period of Brazil’s history when homosexual subjects were seen as inferior and pathological.

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Author Biographies

Caio César Silva Rocha, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei (UFSJ)

Mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Cênicas da Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei. Especialista em Metodologia do Ensino
de Arte pela UNINTER. Graduado em Licenciatura em Teatro pela Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia - UESB/Campus Jequié.  Professor de Arte da Secretaria Estadual de Educação da Bahia. Ator. 

Alberto Ferreira da Rocha Júnior , UFSJ

Graduado em Artes Cênicas pela Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1987), Mestre em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1991) e Doutor em Artes pela Universidade de São Paulo (2002). Professor Titular da Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei. Atualmente é o líder do Grupo de Pesquisas em Artes Cênicas da UFSJ e vice-líder do grupo Estudos de História e Historiografia do Espetáculo da UNIRIO, ambos cadastrados no Diretório dos Grupos de Pesquisa do CNPq. Short Term Visiting Scholar na University of Georgia (out.-dez 2017). Seu projeto de pesquisa docente atual intitula-se Diversidade sexual e teatro no Brasil e tem financiamento do edital Demanda Universal CNPq 2018. Representante da UFSJ junto ao UFSJ, junto ao Conselho Municipal dos Direitos Humanos de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais LGBT da Prefeitura Municipal de São João del-Rei (2021-2023). 

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Published

2022-08-24

How to Cite

Silva Rocha, C. C., & Ferreira da Rocha Júnior , A. . (2022). This faughter is funny: the relationship between comicity na sexuality in the text ‘Greta Garbo, quem diria, acabou no Irajá’. Revista Periódicus, 2(17), 01–36. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i17.47317

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 17 (2022): Plural Film Culture

Section

Free section

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