Abstract
Considering that João Gilberto Noll's writing animates, through almost all his fictional production, displacements of meanings regarding categories such as “body”, “sex” and “gender”, always presenting his characters from a perspective that challenges the binary limits “man/woman” and homosexual/heterosexual”, this article seeks to elaborate an analysis of Acenos e afagos (Noll, 2008cNOLL, João Gilberto (2008c). Acenos e afagos. Rio de Janeiro: Record .) and Berkeley em Bellagio (Noll, 2002NOLL, João Gilberto (2002). Berkeley em Bellagio. Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva.) in the light of the concept called “profanation,” proposed by Giorgio Agamben. Here we understand the queer inscribed in the author's work as a power that, contesting the territories which literature itself is based on, is capable of profaning the discursive arbitrariness administered by the biopolitical logic that supports the contemporary arrangement.
Keywords:
queer; profanation; Brazilian contemporary literature; João Gilberto Noll