Perspectivas decoloniais acerca da reconfiguração do racismo em narrativas de personagens LGBTQIAPN+ nos filmes A Rainha diaba (1974), Madame satã (2002) e Sócrates (2018)

Abstract

The aim of this research is to understand how colonialities and the perspectives of whiteness make visible or invisible the relationships and dynamics of Brazilian structural racism and LGBTQIAPN+phobia in the films A Rainha Diaba (1974), Madame Satã (2002) and Sócrates (2018). The first film, initially inspired by experiences in the port region of the city of Santos, São Paulo, but with a final script that takes place in the bohemian region of Lapa, in Rio de Janeiro, although its director claims not to have been inspired by the historical figure of João Francisco dos Santos, has been associated with this artist, who had a troubled career in Rio de Janeiro, especially in Lapa. The second film, to some extent, proposes itself as a free adaptation of the trajectory of João Francisco dos Santos, including the incorporation, already in the title, of the racist nickname that still persists in the identification of the artist today. Sócrates, in turn, is a strictly fictional film, which helps us, in the analytical endeavor, to understand how whiteness perspectives are recurrent in racist and LGBTQIAPN+phobic approaches in certain film narratives. In common, the three films are directed by white and cis men, which represents the possibility of identifying ways of looking at black people nuanced by whiteness perspectives. To this end, the reflection is based on theories that, from a decolonial perspective, discuss the ways in which Brazilian racism is structured, be it symbolic, institutional, epistemic, psychological, among many other ways in which whiteness has reworked it, since the colonization process of the Americas. The discussion of the phenomenon of racism in the selected films - intersectional with the discussion of gender and sexuality - provides clues to the permanence and little rupture of a racism that is updated, including in cinema, from the construction of narratives of black LGBTQIAPN+ characters.