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“The queer poetics Judar advances are rooted in Brazilian politics, past and present.”
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“These intertwined thematic threads—language and the body, social and political repression, and lines of flight towards liberation—coalesce in Cris Judar’s fiction.”
““Dandara, the travesti” references a case of the violent hate crimes that travestis in Brazil suffer on a regular basis.”
“Indeed, the social traumas of They Marched Under the Sun are not only echoes of a past regime.”
“Fiction also has the ability to show how language snaps under the weight of violence, how trauma ruptures the very meaning of words.”
“Judar’s prose may be resistant to translation in the way it reasserts its contextual rootedness, but the political issues and themes of the novel are nevertheless broadly relevant, compelling to audiences across wide swaths of the world.”
“That specificity is especially evident in They Marched Under the Sun , where abuses of the Brazilian state fold into intimate narratives.”
“But another, equally significant reason as to why we should read Judar in English translation lies in language.”
“Copyright © 2026 by Cris Judar, introduction by Lara Norgaard Brazil Cris Judar Fonograf Lara Norgaard Sao Paulo They Marched Under the Sun trans writers translation Lara Norgaard Lara Norgaard is a PhD student in comparative literature at Harvard working on collective memory of state violence, leftist cultural circulation between Latin America and Southeast Asia, and histories of U.S.-backed, anti-communist military dictatorships.”
“A belly full of otters, a leg of lamas, rump like a basket of gold that could fit a calf or whole human child.” It is apt to engage They Marched Under the Sun as though it were a quest, because the idea of questioning femininity, of questioning the ties between language and bodies, is central to Judar’s agenda.”
“In everything we do, we are questioning femininity.”
“This is the very quest that Ana and Joan themselves embark on at the outset of the narrative.”
“None of the examples in this catalogue are easily translated or transposed into another language and social context; they are utterly specific to Brazil.”
““One hundred and eleven rounds fired; five boys dead” alludes to the police killing of five teenagers in a poor neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro in which officers fired 111 bullets at their targets in a gross excess of brute force.”
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“Judar, who has published nearly half a dozen works of fiction including award-winning books Roteiros para uma vida curta and Oito do Sete , approaches these political topics through genre-defying prose that hovers about the borders of poetry, playing at the limits of the vocabularies and grammars used to define bodies, desire, and femininity.”
“They are sites of repression, erasure, and enclosure, but also spaces for liberation, creativity, and dissident expression.”
“Lips = highways, leading me towards desirable destinations.”
“The book is structured around the voices of two young women in São Paulo, Ana and Joan, each on the cusp of their eighteenth birthday, each experimenting with their sense of self, with their limits and possibilities.”