Para além do terno e do chapéu de couro: mulheres masculinas em The Well of Loneliness e Grande Sertão: Veredas

Abstract

Para além do terno e do chapéu de couro: mulheres masculinas em The Well of Loneliness e Grande Sertão: Veredas aims at discussing issues about the masculinity biological women practice as well as using literature as reflexive instance about these plural forms of masculinities. The literary corpus of this dissertation is formed by an English novel (The Well of Loneliness which was published in 1928, by Radclyffe Hall) and a Brazilian one (Grande Sertão: Veredas which was published in 1956, by Guimarães Rosa). The theoretical chapter proposes the problematization of concepts such as sex, gender, biological determinism and binary system by the use of theories which join queer, philosophical, anthropological, phenomenological and psychoanalytical aspects. The second chapter broaches relevant issues concerning the inversion of the protagonist of The Well of Loneliness, as well as its author´s, highlighting critical articles about the novel and its so condemned theme. The third chapter which focuses on Grande Sertão: Veredas draws a theoretical trajectory that dialogues with philosophical aspects of this masterpiece by Guimarães Rosa. At the end of the research, the conclusion proposes a reflexion about subjectivities which are allowed to be plural and fluid, that are beyond the biological body, beyond social arbitrarities. Moreover, the conclusion points to a possibility of social systems that gather instead of segregating, that shelter instead of marginalizing the subject and his/her desires