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O USO DOS “ESTRANHOS” EM NOSSOS OSSOS, DE MARCELINO FREIRE

Abstract

This article has as objective to discuss the construction of non-hegemonic characters in the work Nossos Ossos, by Marcelino Freire (2013). In the light of Butler (2000) and Bauman (1998), this analysis presents how the first person narrator, Heleno de Gusmão, as a posthumous person, uses stereotyped social constructions regarding the transvestite character, Estrela, and the michês (male prostitutes)  with whom he engage in the plot, showing discourses that objectify these subjects. It is discussed how the narrator build himself up in terms of a social hegemony - white, rich and cisgender - to attract the reader according to his point of view about others. Still regarding Estrela, it is observed that Heleno delegitimizes Estrela's existence and her possibility of building her body up and producing herself as a woman, in addition to treating her as dangerous and mercenary. Regarding “michês”, a nomenclature chosen by the narrative voice, Heleno separates the one who has his affection, calling him boy, from the others who are stereotyped: the indian, as a sexually transmitted disease vector (HIV/SIDA); the rascal, as usurper of his money; and the black as a paradox of his economic power linked to his whiteness. It is concluded that the narrator approaches the hegemonic ideals of the wealthy, white, western Judeo-Christian culture, as a way of valuing his life and his effort to rise up in the face of the difficulties imposed to the homoerotic subjects, generating his contempt for the “outsiders”.