“Inverted” and transgressive sexualities: bom-crioulo and determininm in brazilian naturalism
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Bom-Crioulo, Naturalism, InversionAbstract
Primarily, the present article aims to gather some points of view of the Brazilian literary historiography about the work Bom-Crioulo (1991, [1895]), by Adolfo Caminha. Despite the controversy surrounding it, the novel was considered one of the pioneers of the Portuguese language on the approach of Homoeroticism at the time it was published. Our principal hypothesis is the importance of the sexual thematic, which composes a tragic love triangle, characterized as well as by advances – a black hero, an interracial romance, denunciation of the physical punishments on the Navy, but also by retreats or continuities – insistence for an active position (masculine types as Amaro) versus passive (feminine types as the young cabin boy Aleixo). Therefore, the work shuffles the genders (Amaro – Aleixo – Carolina) to shortly sustain certain essentialisms to distinguish between masculine and feminine types. However, this position is compatible with the scientific theoretical framework of this time, the basis of the naturalistic ideology, also present on the here summarized thinking of Sigmund Freud. The so-called “inversions” as well as on Freud’s concepts of “Drive” and “Libido” echo the discoveries of Charles DarwinReferences
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