Para além dos corpos

uma relação intermidiática sobre a representação de prostitutas negras em obras do Modernismo

Abstract

The present work is an analysis made from works of different signs in order to make an intermedia reading in a homologous way. Thus, the paintings Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) by Pablo Picasso and O Sonho de prostituta (1930) by Cícero Dias and the novel Compasso Binário (1972) by Arlete Nogueira da Cruz were used, highlighting the issue of reflection on representation of prostitutes in modern works. To this end, a qualitative bibliographic research was used, in which the general objective was to carry out an analytical reading under the light of decolonial theory in which the relationship between different media is traced under the same movement to observe the theme of women of color who exercise prostitution; as specific objectives, it was intended to understand how the relations between intermediaries are given in a homologous way; to examine how the practice of prostitution is seen between society and the arts; reflect on the hypersexualization of women of color; and, finally, to analyze how the issue of prostitution of women of color appears in different modern works between different signs. From this discussion it was possible to realize that just as socially prostitution is a work socially showered with prejudices, which makes these women to be seen as immoral and obscene, in the listed works there is the problematization of how prostitutes are represented as beings without identity and subjectivity, summarized and animalized to a body to be explored.