Being mala mala: documentary film and the cultural politics of puerto rican drag and trans identities
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Mots-clés

Mala Mala
documentary film
LGBT
transgender
trans- sexual
drag performance
gender variance
body modification
Puerto Rico
diaspora

Résumé

Il existe aujourd’hui un grand nombre de documentaires sur le trans formisme et l’expérience transgenre portoricaine. Mala Mala (2014) mérite, à ce titre, d’être signalé, car ce documentaire met au jour le combat pour les droits civils, les difficultés rencontrées dans le monde du travail, l’impact des médias transnationaux, la négociation des préjugés et des stigmates, ainsi que les grandes avancées qui ont permis de rendre visible les LGBT. En se concentrant sur de nouveaux sujets, les réalisateurs, Antonio Santini et Dan Sickles, le cinématographe Adam Uhl et la monteuse Sofía Subercaseaux parviennent à rendre les com-
plexités de cette expérience, y compris dans ses dimensions langagières, migratoires, physiques (transformations corporelles ou encore vieillis- sement) et relationnelles. Le film n’aborde toutefois que de manière limitée certains aspect du transformisme, comme la minorité d’hommes trans ou encore la question de la diversité ethnique. Cet article propose une comparaison de Mala Mala avec d’autres productions, arguant qu’il s’agit-là d’un corpus à part entière. Nous nous proposons également de montrer que les subjectivités malas malas agissent comme des formes de résistance identitaire à Porto Rico

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