Escriturações das lesbianidades em Vange Leonel

Abstract

The current paper proposes a discussion about the construction of the signs of lesbianities in the musical and literary production of Vange Leonel (1963 - 2014), who, in the transit between song and literature, worked with issues related to social inequalities and lesbianities, from a poetic bias that stands both lyrical and political. Aiming to make visible the lesbian literature, while discussing the artistic position of Vange Leonel in the contemporary landscape, the interlocution between the fields of study of Literature is done, Gender and Sexuality, having as theoretical contribution Stephen Ullman, Luiz Mott, Monique Wittig, Cheryl Clarke, among others. For this, we start from the path of lesbianity in Brazilian music and literature, in order to delimit the political and social landscape in which Vange’s production is developed. As a method, the analysis and understanding of Vange Leonel’s production is performed from the reading of facts as manifestations and movements in the social area, which allows us to establish the measure of discursive and cultural advances of Brazilian society. The result of the research points toward the possibility of an additional meaning, understanding that it is from the compositions of imagetic discourses that the artist enters into the field of ethical, social and ideological relevance, whose function is suggesting the renewal of the linguistic sensitivity of the reader.