Imagens do corpo: superfícies reversíveis e marcas de resistências no brinquedo de miriti

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to reflect on the representations of the body in the images of the toy of miriti, a cultural asset of the city of Abaetetuba/Para. In this sense, we seek support in post-critical Cultural Studies, counting, among others, on Hall (2016), Kellner (1995), Foucault (1987) and Silva (1999). The methodological choice is for critical literacy , an emerging procedure for image analysis. By being intensely disseminated in blogs, books, T-shirts and handbags, the images of the couple of boyfriends represent the ideal body and couple, and they affect everyone, particularly high school youth. As it constitutes not only contemporary culture but also youth subjectivities in daily school life, the images deserve attention, because even if it represented hegemonic bodies, genders and sexualities, being its reversible representation, it is capable of constituting other ways of being and living.