Wilson Bueno and the (trans) gender: a reading of Mar paraguayo and Jardim Zoologico

Abstract

Starting from the understanding of gender as a social and discursive construction, this paper 's proposal is to analyze the description of the (trans) gender from the narrating protagonist of Mar paraguayo (1992) and in as yararas, a story from Jardim zoologico (1999), both works by Wilson Buena (1949-2010). In the discussions about the conceptualization of gender the theoretical considerations of Rogerio Puga (s.d.), Heloisa Buarque de Holanda (1994), Roberto Echavarren (1998; 2007), and others are used. Thus, is it from a brief literary course of the writer Wilson Bueno that we present both stories and finally analyze the existing connections between Mar paraguayo and as yararas, associating them to the (trans) gender androgynous and mutant - from the hybrid definitions of gender attributed to both the faceless doll and the yararas. We conclude that both characters can be arranged in a general in-betweenness, as creatures out of gender that exceed the notions of men and women, male and female.