Canonical transgressions: queering the maiden warrior

Abstract

In this article, I analyze the literary paradigm of donzelas-guerreiras, as well as the use that literary criticism has made of this paradigm. In addition, I propose a queer reading of these characters, either from the idea of dissident masculinities, or from the idea that the transition between genders is part of human diversity, which separates us from the psychoanalytic readings that understand the dissidents and the transits between the genders like pathology and / or incomplete development. Because I believe there is an over-use of the paradigm to read different literary dissidents of gender, I also propose the unfolding of the paradigm of the donzela-guerreira in four other paradigms: male women, women warriors, maiden warrior and transgender warriors.