Pornosofias de uma filosoquenga: a prosa erótica de Juliana Frank

Abstract

The present work proposes to research the works Quenga de plástico (2011) e Meu coração de pedra-pomes (2013) by the Brazilian writer and screenwriter Juliana Frank. His texts raise questions about the relationships between male and female, prostitution, madness, religion and the issue of social inequality, establishing on these points their narrative conflicts through a pornographic literary language that mixes violence and social denunciation, now reflection and lyricism. This research, composed of an introduction and three chapters, goes through the history of female authorship in Brazil since its beginning, deliberately hidden by an elite of male authors who then dominated the market, until the confessional writing produced by (ex-) prostitutes, in order to contextualize the background in which Juliana Frank's work is inserted. For the theoretical basis, the present work makes use, among other considerations, of those of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) regarding sexuality, especially those contained in the work The History of Sexuality (1976-1984) and in Erotism (2013) by Georges Bataille. Some other authors were used as Lynn Hunt (1999), Judith Butler (2003), Mikhail Baktin (2010), Maurice Blanchot (2005), Linda Hutcheon (1995), Pierre Bourdieu (2007) and Sigmund Freud (1996). With this, we seek to verify the possibility of verifying the postmodernist writing of Juliana Frank as an object of studies validated by the academy.