2 [TN] The short story is ‘Dama da Noite’ (Lady of the Night) in Abreu, Caio Fernando, Os Dragões não conhecem o paraíso (São Paulo: Cia. das Letras, 1988)Google Scholar.

3 [TN] Broadly speaking, in Brazil travestis are considered to be those individuals who transgress the gender binary, and transsexuals those who self-identify as the opposite sex to that assigned them at birth. The affinities between the two groups are many and, as a result, travestis and transsexuals are represented by the same national organization, ANTRA – Associação Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais. Given the difficulties of direct cross-cultural translation in this area, travestis will be retained in this review.

4 Transphobia is particularly acute in Brazil. As Kelli Anne Busey writes, ‘Brazil has just 2.8 percent of the world's population, but 46.7 percent of the world's transgender murders’. See Kelli Anne Busey, ‘How to Fight Transphobic Violence in Brazil’, The Advocate, 4 April 2016, at www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/4/04/how-fight-transphobic-violence-brazil, accessed 5 May 2017.

5 [TN] ‘Geni e o zepelim’ is a song from the musical Ópera do Malandro (Hustler's Opera), by Chico Buarque (1978). Inspired by Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera (1928), for which Kurt Weill wrote the music, it portrays Rio de Janeiro during the Second World War. Ruy Guerra directed the film version of the play (1985). ‘Geni e o zepelim’ is sung by the crossdresser Geni, the character who corresponds to Jenny in Brecht's work.