Sand identities, arid displacements: Joca Reiners Terron’s novel in view of the performances of genders

Abstract

The novelistic fiction Do fundo do poço se vê a lua, by Joca Reiners Terron, brings as one of its central thematic elements the transsexual experience of one of its protagonists. Such representation, discursively produced, is allied to a constant displacement of the characters, space and time, which can be more interesting as it allows us to think of the novel in line with the identity of gender performances. In this sense, considering a theoretical articulation among central authors such as Bakhtin, Judith Butler and Derrida, we understand that the operation of diegetic discourse may nurture the reading perspective of gender as discursive genre.