Abstract

SANTOS, Manoel Antônio dos; LIMA-SANTOS, André Villela de Souza; ARAUJO, Jeferson Santos  and  OLIVEIRA, Wanderlei Abadio de. Building rural masculinities in The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2023, vol.31, n.1, e79660.  Epub Jan 01, 2023. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2023v31n179660.

This theoretical-reflective study aims to investigate the construction of versions of masculinity from a reading of the novel Grande sertão: veredas, by Guimarães Rosa. For that, we resort to the concepts of hegemonic masculinity, proposed by Connell, and performativity, elaborated by Butler. The research covers three ordering axes: 1) a brief exposition on the approaches to masculinities, rescuing their genesis in the feminist theories that inaugurated gender studies; 2) the processes of genderfication in the perspective of the construction of rural masculinity; 3) the presentation of a reading of the relationship between Riobaldo and Diadorim. We emphasize that gender does not subsume a substance, although it reproduces substantial effects, perceived in different versions of hegemonic masculinity performed by the gang of jagunços personified in the Rosian epic.

Keywords : Masculinity; Gender; Literature; Homosexuality.

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