Politics in the name of children

dis/orientations of the body in the children’s picturebook Banho!

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v3i21.60497

Abstract

Within a turbulent political context which nourishes conservative discourses in defense of the traditional Brazilian family, this article aims to analyze the norms that dis/orient the de/re/construction of children’s body in the children’s picturebook Banho! (Bath, in a literal translation) under the paradigm of the myth of childhood innocence. It examines the pictorialization of children’s genitalia as presented by the book through the lens of Queer Linguistics, while the method incorporates a multimodal perspective due to the languages of the picturebook. Considering that the language of children’s literature produces subjects, it is offered a perspective of children’s literature as politics of identity. In the case of Banho!, the possibility of pictorialization of children’s genitalia mobilizes norms of the body in accordance with a white, cisgender identity as a natural status, which indicates a strategy of de/legitimization regarding children’s bodies.

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Author Biography

Guilherme Diniz Machado, Rio de Janeiro State University

PhD candidate in Literature at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), specializing in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. Master's degree from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics (PIPGLA) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Specialist in Children's and Youth Literature from the same institution.

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2025-06-20

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Machado, G. D. (2025). Politics in the name of children: dis/orientations of the body in the children’s picturebook Banho!. Revista Periódicus, 3(21), 254–273. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v3i21.60497

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Vol. 3 No. 21 (2025): Defying monogamy: emergent biopolitics of relational dissidence

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