Critic to the sexnormative readings of “Sargento Garcia”, by Caio Fernando Abreu

Abstract

This study aims to criticize the most current interpretations of “Sargento Garcia”, short story from Morangos mofados, by Caio Fernando Abreu. Supported by the researches of Arenas (1992), Camargo (2010), Ginzburg (2012), among others, it’s pointed that several studies have a sexnormative perspective focused on the (homo)sexual features of the writing of Caio Fernando Abreu, which eclipses other reading possibilities. The concept of sexnormativity comes from debates of the asexual community and it’s used according to the definition of Oliveira (2015). With the (re)reading of the story and the resumption of the allegoric critique to the dictatorship, the analysis indicates the incoherences of works that disregard the violence that permeates the narrative in favor of a homoerotic relation between the characters. With the study of Peter Fry (1982) about the male sexuality, it is argued that in the story there’s a critic to the hierarchical system that divides “men” and “bichas”.