Homoerotismo e homossociabilidade no romance Em nome do desejo, de João Silvério Trevisan

Abstract

This research falls within the field of Literary Studies in an interdisciplinary perspective with gender studies and sexual diversity and aims to contribute to the investigations carried out under the Research Group "Studies on contemporary Brazilian narrative" (CNPq / UFT) coordinated by Prof. Dr. Flávio Pereira Camargo. The objective of this research is to analyze the relationship between homoeroticism and homosociability in the novel Em Nome do Desejo, by João Silvério Trevisan, in order to highlight the consequences of the homoaffective relationship between Abel and Tiquinho, the two main characters of the novel, in the space of Seminar, which is, par excellence, a strictly male space, homophobic and disciplining of bodies, identities and desires of those who inhabit it. This research is bibliographic and theoretical, through which we undertook a hermeneutic exercise in relation to the narrative Em Nome do Desejo, João Silvério Trevisan. Thus, the theoretical part and critical is based mainly in a poststructuralist perspective in order to show that literature in general, leads to otherness, or rather leads to the recognition that the other can and has the right to be different and that we should not be indifferent, negligent and prejudiced to any constituent aspect of the identity of the other with respect to our identity. The homoerotic literature can be a way to understand the other, because this other is discursively represented in literary text in homoerotic narrative. We therefore propose a reflection on the opening of the literary criticism to the discussion of homoeroticism in the literature, since there is resistance of this literary critical to homoerotic literature, which is able to reveal to the reader constitutive aspects of the gay identity. In addition, we seek to highlight various issues relating to homosociability and male friendships as a form of sociability to dribble prejudice, homophobia and latent hostility in our society. To support our reflections on tripod of literature, homoeroticism and homosociability we rely on Antonio Candido (1970, 2006, 2007), Antonio de Pádua Dias da Silva (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011), Antonio de Pádua Dias da Silva e Carlos Eduardo Fernandes (2011), Dreyfuss e Rabinow (2010), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1985), Didier Eribon (2008), Flávio Camargo (2011, 2012), Guacira Lopes Louro (2007, 2008, 2010), José Carlos Barcellos (2006), Judith Butler (2008, 2010), Jurandir Costa (1992), Kathryn Woodward (2000), Mário César Lugarinho (2008), Rick Santos (1997), Terry Eagleton (2006) and Tzevetan Todorov (2010), among other authors and critics concerned with these issues.