A identificação de traços de repreensão da homosexualidade na obra Giovanni´s Room de James Baldwin(1956)

Abstract

Homosexuality throughout the history of literature was considered something to be hidden and erased; otherwise, it would go against the social, religious and family ideologies imposed in our culture since the beginning of society. The present paper aims to identify traits of oppression around homosexuality, found in James Baldwin’s book Giovanni’s Room (1956) and show how these oppressions affect the life and behavior of the characters in the story. Books, theses, monographs, dissertations and articles are being used to support the theoretical and methodological references of the analyzes. The main authors whose theories were used as bases on this paper, were: Foucault (1988), Bock, Furtado & Teixeira (1999), Tyson (2006), Eribon & Haboury (2003), Dias (2009), Katz (1996) e West (1968). This paper presents a qualitative study of a bibliographic research, because through the extracts taken from the book it is possible to analyze and conclude the observations, proving the presence of homosexuality oppressions in the work.