Espaços homossociais e a representação do sujeito homoerótico em Bom-Crioulo e o Ateneu

Abstract

Throughout this research, we analyzed the representation of homoeroticism in homosocial spaces from the naturalistic novels Bom-Crioulo (1895), by Adolfo Caminha, and The Athenaeum (1888), by Raul Pompeia. Building on theoretical frameworks of gender studies, historical and genealogical work of Foucault, Naphy (2006), among others, and sociological concepts of gay studies, contributions from psychoanalysts, psychological phenomenologists and did some analysis of representations of homoerotic identities in the context naturalist who raised the issue of homosexuality to the heart fictional late nineteenth century, and contributed greatly to the literary studies of gay studies as a reference. From the concept of homosocial and homosocial spaces, brought to this analysis some questions about gay identity in the novels naturalists whose prerogatives amounted to the condition of biological determinism and social. Reached the end of this research aware that gay identity in novels, is built through personal contact homosocial grounded in power relations and protection, linked to homoerotic desire in the construction of masculinity within a deterministic logic, but also shapes the model Greek pederasty as a representation of a transient identity.