“Aqueles dois” em leitura queer: “ainda mais alto e mais altivos”

Abstract

In this study, we understand that langua(ge) does not have the ability to represent or describe the reality of the world, on the contrary, we understand it as a discursive action capable of forging a later reality, as a result of an enunciative-performative force, as well. explains Butler (2017 [1990]) and Santos Filho (2020b). From this understanding, we started to deal with the literary text as a discursive project that aims to question the subjects, to convince that the senses and meanings “suggested” in it can (re)create lives/subjects, as, according to Santos Filho (2015a), in the texts, whether literary or not, there is a manifestation of voices/quotes from a moral authority that wants to authorize or disauthorize a way of being and living within the culture, contemporarily a (cis)heteronormative culture, in which we are located. In this sense, in this research, we take the short story “Aqueles Dois”, by Caio Fernando Abreu (2016 [1982]) as a corpus of study and aim with it to investigate which discourses/quotes/voices of (re)categorization of bodies are present, aiming to understand the life project(s) that is/are (or are not) reiterated and (dis)authorized, with regard to gender and sexuality, to be made effective in the narrative, in society at the time the text was written and published, and even today. In view, this research is affiliated with the field of Queer Linguistics, which, according to Santos Filho (2015; 2017; 2019; 2020a; 2020b), is an multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary area that seeks to build an intersection between langua(ge), gender and sexuality to investigate how subjects, whether heterosexual or dissident, when using langua(ge)(re)construct, through enunciative-discursive performances, their gender identity(es) and their (s) sexuality (s). Therefore, by presenting an undisciplinary/interdisciplinary perspective, we dialogue with Literature, in a dialogical-sociological bias, asit approaches the thinking about language developed by Mikhail Bakhtin and by the "Circle", for which the utterance is something concrete and has life, and in this way it helps us to understand that the literary text is a social activity that aims at a dialogue between an “I” and a discursive “other” and that, therefore, is capable of (re)constructing knowledge and life. In these configurations, the methodology of analysis is a reading of the performative act, in an enunciative-discursive perspective of language, justifying itself, for example, by making us understand how which gender and sexual “identities” are invited to take effect in the narrative, and in society. Therefore, we searched for theoretical foundation in Borba (2015 [2006]), Butler (2003[1990]), Lívia and Hall (2010 [1997]), Medviédev (2012[1928]), Miotello (2020), Santos Filho (2015, 2017), among others. After the analysis, we understand that in the short story there is a recurrence of quotes/social voices linked to the artistic sphere, such as titles and excerpts from songs and movies, names/works of plastic artists, from which it is suggested for bodies/ lives of protagonist heroes, Raul and Saul, a homo-affective body. However, the categorization of body, life and sexuality of the two heroes Only takes place at the time of their nomination, when the subject-author mobilizes expressions that resonate with the social voices of conservative and prejudiced subjects, such as “abnormal and prejudiced relationships” within the utterance. ostensible”, “shameless aberration”. In this way, the subject-author problematizes heterosexuality as the norm to be followed, while homosexuality would become unfeasible. In these aspects, the short story, then, can be read as a subversive ethical-aesthetic act, and its author can be seen as transgressive.