Hiv-positive, bodies that resist: writings from own experiences, identities and subjectivities.
Escrevivências. Identities. Subjectivities. Literature. HIV/AIDS.
In Brazil, it is estimated that 900,000 people live with HIV and many of them are anonymously hostages to the stigmas that have been constructed and accompany the historical and social transformations that have occurred in societies. Considering this context, it is analyzed how language and discourse are fundamental tools to formulate discursive representations about bodies that coexist with the diagnosis of positive for HIV/AIDS. It is verified how contemporary Brazilian Literature can be triggered as a device of opening, affirmation and reexisting of dissenting bodies that seek to challenge their place of speech. In addition, it analyzes how representations of people living with HIV/AIDS are elaborated, this dissertation points out that, in addition to stereotypes there is a systematic erasure of black bodies that write posit[hiv] literature portraying their writings. Thus, the study proposes the elaboration of an afrodiaspathic epistemology to read and narrate the literary production of black bodies living with HIV/AIDS. To this end, we invest in the notion of Literatura negro-posit[hiv]a, as one that seeks to crack the hegemonic social processes that seek to institute norms annulling body subjectivities. To this end, the writings and concerns of the HIV-positive researcher for seven years are triggered, but at the same time sought to overcome the limits of his relationship with serology by mobilizing other posithivas voices to broaden the dialogue through the deconstructive perspective by refusing to be narrated by the desire of the other. Thus, the study proposes to amplify the look at the productions arising from those that, historically, were represented by the hegemonic white discourses.