Scholarship 18/25589-0 - Biografias, Pessoas transgênero - BV FAPESP
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Words of becoming: on writing, difference and subjectivity in biographies and autobiographies of transgender people in the United States

Grant number: 18/25589-0
Support Opportunities:Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
Start date: May 01, 2019
End date: March 31, 2020
Field of knowledge:Humanities - Anthropology
Principal Investigator:Silvana de Souza Nascimento
Grantee:Luiza Ferreira Lima
Supervisor: Heather Love
Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
Institution abroad: University of Pennsylvania, United States  
Associated to the scholarship:16/23516-0 - Transits in text: a comparative analysis of biographies and autobiographies of trans people in Brazil and in the United States of America, BP.DR

Abstract

This project intends to investigate subjectification processes produced in and through writing in biographies and autobiographies composed or coordinated by transgender people in the United States. As part of my main broader research carried out in Brazil, my goal is to focus, through documental research (having as principal materials American publications of the genre, as well as historical sources, newspaper articles and documentaries about said publications and their authors) and interviews with authors, on the ways these publications, during the history of this literary field in the United States, design possibilities of existence, reproduce and/or destabilize gender conventions, respond to specific sociopolitical contexts and reorganize power relations.

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