Malandragem
This term describes a street-smart cunning figure in Brazilian culture, often associated with trickery and survival.
What is malandro?
This art form(central to the film) highlights Madame Satã’s public persona.
What is performance or theater?
Madame Satã defies norms by dressing as a ______ during performances.
What is a woman or drag queen?
The Pachuco, like the malandro, is a symbol of this among marginalized youth.
What is resistance or nonconformity?
Madame Satã was a descendant of this group, heavily marginalized in Brazil.
Who are Afro-Brazilians or formerly enslaved people?
The malandro walks the line between law and crime, often resisting this social institution.
What is the police or state authority?
The film is set in this specific area of Rio known for its nightlife and marginal figures.
What is Lapa?
This phrase best describes the gender performance in Madame Satã’s character: "gender is a ______."
What is performance or construct?
The Pachuco emerged in this country during the 1940s.
What is the United States (specifically, Mexican-American communities)?
Afro-Brazilian identity in Madame Satã is performed through this Afro-diasporic art form.
What is capoeira?
Malandragem is rooted in this Brazilian city’s bohemian culture.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
Madame Satã is often seen practicing this Afro-Brazilian martial art.
What is capoeira?
In Green’s article, Madame Satã’s queerness is shaped by intersecting identities of race, gender, and _______.
What is class?
This Mexican author famously analyzed the Pachuco as a symbol of Mexican existential anxiety.
Who is Octavio Paz?
The concept of “racial democracy” is challenged in Madame Satã’s life due to experiences of this.
What is racism or racial inequality?
In Madame Satã, this real-life figure embodies the malandro while also queering it.
Who is João Francisco dos Santos (Madame Satã)?
The film highlights the constant tension between public spectacle and private ______.
What is struggle?
Madame Satã’s use of camp, drag, and theatricality can be linked to this broader queer strategy.
What is subversion or resistance?
Both the malandro and the Pachuco use this aspect of their identity as armor against social exclusion.
What is style or fashion?
Green emphasizes that Madame Satã’s pride in his Blackness served as a challenge to this Brazilian myth.
What is the myth of racial harmony or racial democracy?
ccording to Lisa Shaw, malandragem in Madame Satã becomes a tool for resisting both racial and ______ oppression.
What is sexual or gender?
The final scenes of the film portray Madame Satã not just as a performer, but as a symbol of _______.
What is resistance or queer Black identity?
The film suggests that Madame Satã’s embrace of femininity was not weakness but a form of this.
What is power or defiance?
The similarities between the malandro and Pachuco include their status as racialized, gender-bending figures who subvert ________ ideals.
What are hegemonic or dominant?
Lisa Shaw explores how Madame Satã complicates traditional portrayals of Black men in Brazilian culture by blending these two seemingly oppositional traits.
What are masculinity and queerness (or femininity)?