Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2018-05-09T18:11:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Adriano Lima de Souza.pdf: 2192319 bytes, checksum: 807ca78fcd7f6e3b189d186b495a2ac9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-09T18:11:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Adriano Lima de Souza.pdf: 2192319 bytes, checksum: 807ca78fcd7f6e3b189d186b495a2ac9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-03 / The understanding of the brazilian soul complexity arouses the interest of psychologists and researchers aligned with the theoretical framework of analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. So this is the development of research on the african-Brazilian religious diversity. Genuinely Brazilian, Umbanda is marked by syncretism of indigenous, african traditions, catholicism and the spiritism of Kardec. It is remarkable the integration, on the mythical plan in his own Pantheon, of marginalized members categories. In this sense, Z? Pelintra is the direct representative of the Rio?s trickery which emerged in the early of the twentieth century. Historical fact of this period which we highlight, are the intense removals (remocao de que???) known as the "put-to-low" of Pereira Passos. It is in this period that the figure of the "trickster" appears circulating for several areas of the city. In 1808, with the arrival of the Royal Family and the Portuguese Court in Brazil, the Law of Pensions was established to ensure the Portuguese nobles the right to request a house to bring them satisfaction. During this period, the groups of ?capoeira? as well as tricksters, occupied the city on their own way. In the XXI century, Rio de Janeiro lives a new process of change in the urban and social space, as in the previous arbitrary removals which were part of history. Hence, Jung understands that the unconscious processes and the conscious activity generate psychic compensation ruled by tangible and / or abstract expressions. So here we have the following questions: what material and psychological impact urban removals are causing in the city of Rio de Janeiro? If removals reveal aspects of the class struggle present in the city, then we can consider the trickster and Z? Pelintra phalanx as individual and collective unconscious compensations? In our research we recognize that the image of Z? Pelintra reveals the psychological aspects related to the personification of a cultural complex. / A compreens?o da complexidade da alma brasileira desperta o interesse de psic?logos e pesquisadores alinhados com o referencial te?rico da psicologia anal?tica de Carl Gustav Jung. Logo, ? presente o desenvolvimento de pesquisas sobre a diversidade religiosa afro-brasileira. Genuinamente brasileira, a umbanda ? marcada pelo sincretismo das tradi??es ind?genas, africanas, o catolicismo e espiritismo de Kardec. ? marcante a integra??o, no plano m?tico, em seu Pante?o, de categorias s?cias marginalizadas. Nesse sentido, Z? Pelintra ? o representante direto da malandragem carioca surgida no come?o do s?culo XX. Fato hist?rico desse per?odo, que destacamos, s?o as intensas remo??es conhecidas como o ?bota-a-baixo? de Pereira Passos. ? nesse per?odo que a figura do ?malandro? aparece circulando por v?rias ?reas da cidade. Em 1808, com a chegada da Fam?lia Real e a Corte Portuguesa no Brasil, foi institu?da a Lei das Aposentadorias para garantir aos nobres portugueses o direito de requisitar uma moradia que lhe trouxesse satisfa??o. Nesse per?odo, as maltas de capoeira e assim como os malandros, ocupavam a cidade a sua maneira. J? no s?culo XXI, o Rio de Janeiro vive novo processo de mudan?a no espa?o urbano e social, assim como nos anteriores as remo??es arbitrarias fizeram parte da hist?ria. Jung compreende que os processos inconscientes e a atividade consciente geram compensa??es ps?quicas pautadas em manifesta??es tang?veis e/ou abstratas. Ent?o, aqui temos os seguintes questionamentos: qual impacto material e psicol?gico as remo??es urbanas est?o causando na cidade do Rio de Janeiro? Se as remo??es revelam aspectos da luta de classes, presentes na cidade, ent?o, podemos considerar que o malandro e a falange de Z? Pelintra s?o compensa??es inconscientes individuais e coletivas? Em nossa pesquisa reconhecemos que a imagem de Z? Pelintra revela e, ao mesmo tempo, desvela aspectos psicol?gicos que apontam para a personifica??o de um complexo cultural.

La particularité de la conduite de ruse, caractérisée par une diversité étonnante des domaines où elle se manifeste et s’applique, fait de ce phénomène d’intelligence une matière privilégiée dans la production dramaturgique de Molière. Pour soulever des questions cruciales portant sur l’aveuglement, l’imposture, le pouvoir de l’imagination et ses dérèglements, le théâtre comique de Molière construit ses intrigues en exploitant les fausses apparences, le simulacre et le décalage entre l’être et le paraître identifiés dans la pratique de la ruse. La nécessité de réduire le pouvoir tyrannique des personnages tenant les clés de la décision, ou d’atteindre une ambition prédéterminée, impose une forme d’affrontement doux et masqué mené par le personnage de la ruse. La fourberie de celui-ci s’achemine par l’insinuation dans l’esprit de la cible en adoptant une stratégie persuasive, puisée à la science de la rhétorique sophistique, et élaborée en fonction des passions de l’adversaire dans le seul but de le persuader par des inventions imaginaires susceptibles de le mettre à sa merci. Cette scène d’affrontement crée l’énergie du spectacle de la ruse grâce à la virtuosité du jeu théâtral du fourbe qui se livre à des mouvements scéniques, à des mimes, à des exaltations expressives destinés à séduire le public avant la cible. Le caractère outrancier des dupes, leurs réactions burlesques, l’amplification des performances des trompeurs permettent au public de Molière de constater les défauts de sa société, d’en rire, et de vivre des moments euphoriques offerts par la comédie de la ruse. / The characteristics of the crafty behavior of trickery, and the surprising variety of domains where it appears and is put into practice, makes this mind phenomenon a preferential subject in Moliere’s dramatic production. To raise crucial questions on self-delusion, imposture, powers of imagination and his disorders, Moliere’s comic theatre constructs plots making use of deceptive appearances, simulacrum and discrepancy between being and appearance, characterized in the practice of trickery. The necessity to cut down the despotic power of the characters holding the key of decision, or to achieve a given goal, calls for a gentle and concealed method of confrontation led by the trickster. His trickery worms its way into the mind of a prey using a persuasive strategy drawn from the science of sophistic rhetoric and designed according to the passions of the opponent in the sole purpose to convince him by fictitious fabrications that might put him at the mercy of the trickster. The confrontation scene creates the energy of the trickery performance thanks to the virtuosity of the trickster’s acting who engages himself in scenic gestures, pantomimes and expressive outburst intended to seduce the audience before the prey. The extreme characters of the dupes, their comical reactions, the elation of the trickster’s performances allow the audience to notice the defects of his society, laugh with them and to live euphoric moments created by the comedy of trickery.

[pt] Este trabalho pretende demonstrar a importância das letras compostas por Noel Rosa para a cultura carioca e brasileira. As letras destes sambas, recheadas de uma visão humorística, podem desvelar um pouco o universo social que nosso artista vivia e o que ele ainda tem a nos dizer nos dias de hoje. Para tanto, foi necessário estudar algumas letras compostas por Noel paradigma da cultura e sua interpretação, para uma maior compreensão da sociedade, discutindo a importância dos artistas e sua arte enquanto formuladores de cultura, além de abordá-los como mediadores culturais e também criadores de interesses sociais. Passamos a aventar a preponderância do samba enquanto um fenômeno histórico e social carioca e também brasileiro, e sua trajetória até chegar ao nosso compositor, tendo suas letras como nosso objeto de estudo. Assim revelando um pouco de sua biografia, demonstrando a sua importância para o mundo do samba e como sua visão social pode representar um olhar diferenciado sobre a sociedade. Classificamos este olhar diferenciado pela presença do discurso do humor, analisando de como se desenvolve a linguagem do riso e seu contraponto com a ordem vigente. Finalmente, destacamos alguns temas de caráter social pertinentes na obra noelina, concentrando a atenção em dois elementos, que aí se encontram inter-relacionados: a malandragem e o desejo difuso de ascensão à condição aristocrática. / [en] This work aims to demonstrate the importance of the lyrics composed by Noel Rosa for the carioca and Brazilian culture. The lyrics of those sambas, filled with a humoristic vision, can reveal a little of the social universe that our artist lived and what he nowadays has yet to tell us. Therefore, it was necessary to study the role of the culture and its interpretation, for a better comprehension of society, discussing the importance of artists and their art as formulators of culture, as well as to approach them as cultural mediators and also creators of social interests. We start to envisage the preponderance of samba as a historical and carioca and also Brazilian social phenomenon, and its trajectory until reaching our composer, having his lyrics as our objective of study: Noel Rosa, revealing a little of his biography, demonstrating his importance for the world of samba and how his social vision can represent a differentiated view upon society. We classified this view distinguished by the presence of humor discourse, we also make an analysis of how the laugh language is developed and its counterpoint with the established order. Finally, we highlight some social relations that are present in the Noel s work, focusing on two related behaviors: the rogue and the aristocratic willingness.

L’intégralité des textes de Marcel Schwob a d’abord paru en journaux. On se propose d’étudier l’influence de cette « matrice » journalistique, avec ses fortes contraintes, sur l’écriture de Marcel Schwob, et symétriquement l’influence de la publication ultérieure des mêmes textes en recueils sur leur réception par le lecteur.Les textes de Marcel Schwob, s’ils demeurent référentiels (descriptifs du réel, récits d’anecdotes ou de choses vues, réflexions sur des cas judiciaires) sont le lieu d’une fictionnalisation de la chronique, ce qui pose le problème des contraintes auxquelles Marcel Schwob souscrit et de celles (comme la contrainte de référence directe à l’actualité) dont il s’exonère. Mais cette fictionnalisation de l’écriture journalistique n’est pas originale à la fin du XIXe siècle, et il s’agira de la replacer dans une tradition. Il serait alors possible de considérer l’écriture journalistique chez Schwob comme une expérience déterminante des techniques d’insertion d’un savoir sur le passé ou sur le réel contemporain non seulement dans une chronique, mais aussi dans une fiction. On montrera d’ailleurs que la frontière entre écriture dite « journalistique » et écriture dite « littéraire » n’est pas pertinente pour Marcel Schwob, pas plus que pour les écrivains journalistes qui lui sont contemporains.L’érudition dont Marcel Schwob fait spectacle sert à cacher (puis, dans Mœurs des diurnales à exhiber) des références et allusions apparemment savantes mais fictives, en tout cas douteuses pour le lecteur, tant il est vrai qu’il serait impossible de tout vérifier, ce que démontre bien l’impossibilité d’une édition critique exhaustivement annotée des œuvres de Schwob. / The full texts of Marcel Schwob first appeared in newspapers. It is proposed to investigate the influence of this journalistic "matrix", with its strong constraints on writing Marcel Schwob, and symmetrically the influence of the subsequent publication of the same texts in collections on their reception by the reader.The texts of Marcel Schwob, they remain repositories (descriptive of reality, stories or anecdotes of things seen , reflections on court cases) are the site of a fictionalization of chronic, which poses the problem of constraints Marcel Schwob subscribed and those (such as duress direct reference to the news) he is exempt. But this fictionalization of journalistic writing is not original to the late nineteenth century, and it will be replacing it in a tradition. It would then be possible to consider journalistic writing in Schwob as a defining experience of insertion techniques of knowledge about the past or contemporary reality not only chronic but also in fiction. Moreover, we show that the boundary between writing called "journalistic" and write so-called "literary" is not relevant to Marcel Schwob, nor for writers-journalists who are her contemporaries.The erudition Marcel Schwob shows is used to hide (and, in Moeurs des diurnales to exhibit) references and scholarly but apparently fictitious allusions in any doubtful case to the reader, as it is true that it would be impossible to verify all, which demonstrates the impossibility of exhaustively annotated critical edition of the works of Schwob.

Submitted by Ricardo Cedraz Duque Moliterno (ricardo.moliterno@uefs.br) on 2017-07-13T00:34:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o final 2016 Jo?o Daniel Guimar?es Oliveira.pdf: 655013 bytes, checksum: d0a2de9f4bcda190e3f62f17cf4803e7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-13T00:34:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o final 2016 Jo?o Daniel Guimar?es Oliveira.pdf: 655013 bytes, checksum: d0a2de9f4bcda190e3f62f17cf4803e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-16 / This study performs a reading of Pornopop?ia (2009), the romance wrote by Reinaldo Moraes, borned in S?o Paulo. In my analysis, I try to identify the manifestations of street smarts and cynicism present in Zeca figure, the protagonist. In the erotic and irresponsible adventure of romance, this guy of metropolis finds himself at the mercy of consumerism and moral vacuum. The individualism and the hero's hedonism, mostly geared toward to the enjoyment, are the result of the logic of a society where the consumer is not a subject but its object. Zeca integrates a particular line of characters that possibly originated in Spain with so-called picaresque novels. Such a line had in Manuel Antonio de Almeida a pioneer in Brazil, with the book Mem?rias de um sargento de mil?cias, in which the author, though inheriting characteristics of the Spanish rogue, absorbs the folk style of local historical figures like Peter Malasartes, creating, so in Leonardo (protagonist of Mem?rias), the prototype of the Brazilian trickster. While in the first chapter i select some individuals who, given their representation throughout history, would be formative parts for the creation of Zeca, in the second i choose for bringing literary examples listed as examples of the types listed in the previous chapter, as well as notabilizam themselves while Reinaldo Moraes' precursors. In the third chapter I dwell on the text and develop my reading from three directions: the Zeca relations with pleasure, with morality and with the void. Therefore, reflect, in this dissertation, on the possible belonging of this character, given its sharp bend to the marginal and peripheral zone. / O presente trabalho realiza uma leitura da Pornopop?ia (2009), romance do escritor paulista Reinaldo Moraes. Em minha an?lise, busco identificar as manifesta??es da malandragem e do cinismo presentes na figura de Zeca, o protagonista. Na aventura er?tica e irrespons?vel do romance, esse indiv?duo da urbe se v? ? merc? do consumismo e do vazio moral. O individualismo e o hedonismo do her?i, majoritariamente voltados para o gozo, s?o frutos da l?gica de uma sociedade para a qual o consumidor n?o ? o sujeito, mas seu objeto. Zeca integra uma linha particular de personagens que possivelmente originou-se na Espanha com os chamados romances picarescos. Tal linha teve em Manuel Antonio de Almeida seu pioneirismo aqui no Brasil, com a obra Mem?rias de um sargento de mil?cias, na qual o autor, embora herdando caracter?sticas do p?caro espanhol, absorve o estilo folcl?rico de figuras hist?ricas locais como Pedro Malasartes, criando, assim, em Leonardo (protagonista das Mem?rias), o prot?tipo do malandro brasileiro. Enquanto no primeiro cap?tulo elenco alguns sujeitos que, dada a sua representatividade ao longo da hist?ria, seriam pe?as formativas para a cria??o de Zeca, no segundo opto por trazer exemplos liter?rios que figuram como exemplos dos tipos listados no cap?tulo anterior, bem como notabilizam-se enquanto precursores de Reinaldo Moraes. No terceiro cap?tulo me debru?o sobre o texto e desenvolvo minha leitura a partir de tr?s dire??es: as rela??es de Zeca com o prazer, com a moral e com o vazio. Assim sendo, reflito, nesta disserta??o, acerca do poss?vel pertencimento desta personagem, tendo em vista sua n?tida curvatura para a zona marginal e perif?rica.

[pt] A Umbanda é uma religião afro-brasileira, na qual ocorre a manifestação de espíritos por meio do transe. Durante as giras, essas energias são evocadas através de cânticos, denominados pontos cantados, uma espécie de mantras, fundamentais na ritualística. A cosmologia umbandística possui em sua estrutura uma variedade de entidades, a grande maioria tipos sociais notavelmente subalternizados e oriundos do contexto popular. Dentre os arquétipos está o malandro, ator dos espaços da margem, enraizado na formação da sociedade brasileira. Ao longo das décadas e das mudanças na arte, na literatura, nos contextos históricos e sociais, festas e ritos, o malandro recebeu diversos moldes estéticos, performáticos e psicológicos. No entanto, o típico representante carioca dos anos 20 e 30, com seu terno branco e chapéu Panamá, se cristalizou como um dos símbolos de uma noção de identidade brasileira e, na Umbanda, foi incorporado e suas dimensões de malandragem ressignificadas para que ele pudesse atuar. Na categoria dos malandros, Zé Pelintra, ou apenas Seu Zé, é figura conhecida. Durante as visitas ao terreiro do Caboclo Arruda, no bairro do Valqueire, ele narra a sua relação com o universo no qual está inserido e tenta esclarecer os novos rumos tomados por outros malandros que deixaram a vida carnal e migraram para outras bandas. Como forma de conservar a permanência dessa figura na memória, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar, através dos pontos cantados da Umbanda, ele próprio e seus elementos característicos que o determinam no contexto profano e sagrado. / [en] Umbanda is an Afro-Brazilian religion where the manifestation of spirits takes place through trances. During the dances, these energies are evoked through chants, denominated sung points, a sort of mantra, which are fundamental to the rites. Umbanda s cosmology possesses in its structures a variety of entities, most of them social types remarkably marginalized and derived from popular context. Among the archetypes is the trickster, known in Brazil as malandro, an actor present in the voids of the margins, rooted in the formation of Brazilian society. Throughout the decades and changes in the arts, literature, historical and social contexts, parties and rites, the malandro welcomed various aesthetic, performative and psychological molds. However, the typical Rio de Janeiro representative of the 1920s and 1930s, wearing his white suit and Panama hat, crystallized himself as one of the symbols of a notion of Brazilian identity and, in the Umbanda, was incorporated and his dimensions of mischief resignified so that he could act. In the category of the so-called malandros, Zé Pelintra, or Seu Zé, is a well-known figure. During visitations to the Caboclo Arruda temple, in the Valqueire neighborhood, he narrates his relationship with the universe in which he is inserted and tries to clarify the new directions taken by other malandros who have left the carnal life and migrated to other paths. In order to guarantee the conservation of such character in memory, the present work aims to analyze, through the sung points of Umbanda, itself and its characteristic elements that determine it in the profane and sacred context.

Este trabalho analisa os contos e textos autobiográficos de João Antônio (1937- 1996) nos quais as figuras paternas exercem papel decisivo para os protagonistas. A análise literária parte da identificação de elementos fundamentais do texto de ficção (tais como narrador, personagens e ação) e de como eles se articulam e interagem. As interpretações combinam elementos da crítica literária, da historiografia, de pesquisas bibliográfica e biográfica, apontando ainda para questões da sociologia e da psicanálise. O estudo parte das reflexões de Antonio Candido, crítico que formulou conceitos importantes para o autor em foco, para a crítica literária e para a linha de pesquisa que relaciona literatura e sociedade. As análises conduzem a questões sobre a trajetória dos personagens ficcionais, sobre o conceito de malandragem, sobre o conto na obra de João Antônio e sobre as relações entre biografia e literatura na vida do autor. / This thesis analyses João Antonios short stories and autobiographical narratives where father figures are crucial and intimately related to main characters. The critical work identifies essential elements of fiction (such as narrator, characters and plot) and the way they interact. Our research is based upon Antonio Candidos essays on João Antônio and on literature and society. The effort of interpretation combines literary criticism, history of literature, biographical approach and bibliographic research, also including psychoanalysis and sociological theoretical references. The interpretations lead to conclusions about the journey of the main characters, the concept of trickery (malandragem), the short story form in João Antonio and the relationship between life and work of this Brazilian writer.

Les romans libertins à figures se développent de façon remarquable au XVIIIe siècle. Selon les frères Goncourt, c’est « le siècle de la vignette ». L’avènement de cette mode de livres illustrés a modifié aussi bien les sensibilités esthétiques et les conditions matérielles de la lecture d’un récit de rouerie, que notre conception de la littérature libertine comme système de représentation, non plus exclusivement textuel, ou discursif, mais engageant un dialogue avec l’image. Il s’agit d’étudier ce dédoublement de la représentation, à travers les dispositifs qu’il met en œuvre, et en mobilisant ceux-ci comme une nouvelle méthode d’analyse du texte et de l’image dans les récits de rouerie libertine.On pourrait croire que les récits de rouerie libertine sont les plus éloignés de l’image, étant donné que la machination et la ruse nécessitent d’agir sous-main. Or notre analyse de la logique de l’image qui gouverne les dispositifs de la représentation dans le roman libertin des Lumières infirme cette hypothèse. Dans cette perspective, nous tenterons de compléter les études existantes sur la scène érotique ou intime, le regard et la théâtralité de la fiction classique, avec l’idée que, dans les récits de rouerie, la représentation de la machination libertine oscille entre deux stratégies : celle qui donne à voir et celle qui dérobe. / The libertine novels ornated with figures grew dramatically in the eighteenth century. According to Goncourt brothers it is “the century of the vignette”. The development of this genre of illustrated books changed, both aesthetic sensibility of the reader and the material conditions of reading a trick story, for our conception of libertine literature as a system of representation is no more exclusively textual nor discursive but triggers a dialogue with the image. The study of this duplication of representation is at stake, using the text-and-image devices it operates, as a new method to analyse their interconnection in the libertine trick stories. One could imagine such narratives are the most distant from the image, since the machination and trickery need to act covertly, whereas the logic of the image appears to be at the very heart of the operative devices of representation which govern the eighteenth century libertine novel. Following that scientific approach, we’ll try to complete the existing studies on poetics of the erotic or intimate scene, and how gazing and theatricality interact within classical fiction, with the hypothesis that, in the trick stories, the representation of the libertine plot faces two strategies: the one that lures with showing something and the other with concealing.

Margaret Sweatmans novel, <i>When Alice Lay Down With Peter</i>, plays with the British Empires adventure story and its creation of manhood. Mimicking this creative process in the Canadian Northwest, Sweatman conceives and births a womans previously erased passion back into the adventure story in a playful, erotic, and politically-charged presentation of the performing female body. Although appreciating the magic realism element to the novel (157), Nicole Markotic suggests that Sweatmans characters, like the readers, become History Tourists and are mere backdrop for the last century or so of Current Events that take precedence over their stories (156). The McCormack women, Markotic argues, have few stories other than going to war, having one momentous sex scene, giving birth (156). Indeed, Sweatmans whirlwind tour through 109 years of well-documented, and already too many times rehashed, rebellions, labour strikes, and world wars, seems to reflect this sentiment, but to limit Sweatman and her characters to only the Empires gender performative is to miss the female body performing as its own Big Bang.<p>Since a womans contingency and agency within the Empires gender performative has been vigorously debated by post modern and cultural theorists, Sweatman chooses to birth her characters into a world of/as performance. Richard Schechner, a pioneer in the field of performance theory, argues in his earlier work, Essays on Performance Theory (1977), that performance is a very inclusive notion of action, in which the performance workshop and the performance strategy of play are much more important than previously imagined (1,61). Sweatman draws on this discovery in order to free her characters to explore passion beyond Imperial and textual constraints. Four generations of McCormack women mimic, mock, and sidewind their way into, around, and beyond the Empires warring narrative and its heterosexual imperative. They are savvy, sexy, and provocative, playing simultaneously as shameless voyeurs, plagiarists, and war artists.

Margaret Sweatmans novel, <i>When Alice Lay Down With Peter</i>, plays with the British Empires adventure story and its creation of manhood. Mimicking this creative process in the Canadian Northwest, Sweatman conceives and births a womans previously erased passion back into the adventure story in a playful, erotic, and politically-charged presentation of the performing female body. Although appreciating the magic realism element to the novel (157), Nicole Markotic suggests that Sweatmans characters, like the readers, become History Tourists and are mere backdrop for the last century or so of Current Events that take precedence over their stories (156). The McCormack women, Markotic argues, have few stories other than going to war, having one momentous sex scene, giving birth (156). Indeed, Sweatmans whirlwind tour through 109 years of well-documented, and already too many times rehashed, rebellions, labour strikes, and world wars, seems to reflect this sentiment, but to limit Sweatman and her characters to only the Empires gender performative is to miss the female body performing as its own Big Bang.<p>Since a womans contingency and agency within the Empires gender performative has been vigorously debated by post modern and cultural theorists, Sweatman chooses to birth her characters into a world of/as performance. Richard Schechner, a pioneer in the field of performance theory, argues in his earlier work, Essays on Performance Theory (1977), that performance is a very inclusive notion of action, in which the performance workshop and the performance strategy of play are much more important than previously imagined (1,61). Sweatman draws on this discovery in order to free her characters to explore passion beyond Imperial and textual constraints. Four generations of McCormack women mimic, mock, and sidewind their way into, around, and beyond the Empires warring narrative and its heterosexual imperative. They are savvy, sexy, and provocative, playing simultaneously as shameless voyeurs, plagiarists, and war artists.