A construção da identidade homoerótica em Morangos Mofados de Caio Fernando Abreu e em O Menino do Gouveia de Capadócio Maluco

Abstract

This work aimed to discuss the concept of homoerotic literature based on a critical analysis of the works Morangos Mofados, by Caio Fernando Abreu and O Menino do Gouveia, by Capadócio Maluco. The approach of the delimited works focused, respectively, on analyzing the homoeroticism present in the short stories chosen from the book Morangos Mofados by Caio Fernando Abreu, verifying how the elements pointed out in the work explore the construction of homosexuality and how homoeroticism is exposed, as well as the character Bembém, protagonist of O Menino do Gouveia, by Capadócio Maluco, who in turn shows himself explicitly without depriving himself of the social environment. Through a qualitative theoretical approach, we sought to reveal, therefore, aspects related to homoeroticism present in Brazilian Literature, starting from the analysis of these chronologically distant works, but close in relation to the theme adopted by the authors, since both in Capadócio Maluco, as in Caio Fernando Abreu, there is a clear attempt to address homoeroticism in an explicit way, but with the difference in the perspective from which each was produced, since in one there is a certain stigmatization of the image of the homoerotic subject, which reveals the influence of the reading public in the construction of the characters. The research was developed in a bibliographic way, with analysis based on the production of authors such as Bataille (1987), Costa (2002), Freud (1989), Foucault (1985), Giddens (1990), Hall (2004), Silva (2012 ), Souza (2010) and Trevisan (1992).