The subversion of gender notions in the construction of the characters Gina and Moeirão:

analyses and deployment

Abstract

In this article we propose to verify the ways in which the non-conformity to the cisheteronormative notions of “man” and “woman” manifests itself in the development of the characters Gina, from the short story “Ruiva” [1978] written by Júlio César Monteiro Martins and Moleirão, from Clarice Lispector’s short story Praça Mauá [1974], considering that each of the characters, by adopting performative acts that subvert such notions, destabilize sexual norms. The theoretical assumptions that underlie and support the characterizations and analyses of the characters are those presented by Anatol Rosenfeld (2007), Antonio Candido (2007) and Arnaldo Franco Junior (2003).