Corpos e mentes deslocados: a questão da sexualidade nos romances O beijo da mulher-aranha (1981), Stella Manhattan (1985) e Do fundo do poço se vê a lua (2010)

Abstract

During many years of reading practice and among several classical or contemporaneous books, a predominance of heterosexual narrators and characters of the male sex was noticed. Contrary to this androcentricity in literary world, reality shows itself multiple. Considering this, two questions were made: Where will character diversity be represented? More specifically, where will the diversity of homosexual characters be represented? To answer these questions, this study aimed to investigate how some characters of the novels O beijo da mulher-aranha (1981), Stella Manhattan (1985) e Do fundo do poço se vê a lua (2010) articulate body and territory themes to construct an enunciative sexuality coexistence capable of avoiding the “heteronarrative” pattern. It was also intended to understand how sexuality is represented both at context and expression levels in the books mentioned above. The fact that the three main characters, respectively, Molina, Eduardo and Wilson are homoaffectionate and go through processes of unterritorialization and reterritorialization in their respective spaces of coexistence, whether they are fixed ones or within mobility processes is important to highlight. Literature as catharsis space and expression of social reality is able to demonstrate constant violence which threatens those who differ from heterosexual standard rules. Therefore, the purpose of this coursework was to contribute to discussions on the matter and mainly bring gender violent to light. It must be pointed out that even in this violent context, the arts, particularly, theater, movies and dance are the characters means of resistance and counterpoint against heterosexual system. The current study followed a structure based on methodological guidelines which suggest two work stages: theoretical and desk research. Therefore, it follows that the three books stem from a heterosexual matrix to tell homosexual stories, in which, with the presence of art and their double psyches, Molina, Eduardo and Wilson are in a constant becoming process. And in there “midfrontiers” coexistences in either places, it one them becomes one and only.