The narrative of Caio Fernando Abreu and the configuration of a homoerotic field in brazilian arts.

Abstract

Through the decades of 1960/70, a process of demarginalization of homosexuality theme happens in Brazilian arts. In this text, we  aim to analyze the configuration of this new artistic field, in within that homoerotic desire begins to be treated in a different way from the traditional and prejudicial discourses that always marked the theme´s representation. In this way, we think how the narrative of Caio Fernando Abreu is inserted in this process, trough a writing that legitimates the homoerotic desire, participating form the inauguration of a “homotextuality”, as named the new possibility of representing that kind of love that, until that time,  didn´t dare to say its name. Together with others artistical and social fields, as the theater, press and political participation, the homoerotic thematic occupies a new space, though in conflict with a, at that time, predominant notion of compromised art worried about conscientization of working class. Also, in conflict with specifical political conditions, as the radicalization of Military Dictatorship in 1968 and the political overture beginned in the end of 1970´s. Thus, we understand this new view of arts and, specifically, the choice of Caio Fernando Abreu of freely representing it in Literature, acquire a political sense of resistance against Brazilian Dictatorship.