Notes for a queer authorship from Roland Barthes and Jonas Samudio

Abstract

It's known that, in the second half of the 20th century, the debate around the notion of author received a significant boost from the theoretical formulations of Roland Barthes. In this text, comparing the poetics of Jonas Samudio with the theories about the notion of author, we will move forward to think about a notion of queer authorship that appears as dissent from Western logic. In order to achieve this, we make use of the work of Roland Barthes, Jack Halberstam, in The queer art of failure, and the poetics of Jonas Samudio. It will be seen that, far from the ode to the individual, so common in the Western capitalist society, we can think about a queer authorship, a body that writes but that is identified in a binarism. In this perspective, authorship becomes more erotic and communitarian, exalting not the self and its binomials, but a burning knot between the body and writing.