Desexcomungando corpos: narrativas indecorosas de Rubem Fonseca

Abstract

The researched focused on reflections and analyses of the body and biopower agency in short stories from two Rubem Fonseca's works. Secreções, excreções e desatinos (2010) and Axilas e outras histórias indecorosas (2011). From studies about today's body lauding and forms of social body control by defined aesthetical patterns, we have sought to understand how Fonseca's narration reveals a society being a hostage of biopower mechanisms. The general goal was to understand how the power and biopower works in the social field and how people nowadays perceive and approach the docile body. More specifically, we have sought to learn how the abject, abnormal and impure body is approached along the narrations and how the short stories portrait characters who are always bothered by their physical appearance. The theoretical support was possible through readings about the theme which concerned the literature, sociology and anthropology, such as Foucault (1985; 1998; 2000; 2007; 2010), Baudrillard (1995), Le Breton (2003; 2005; 2010) and Douglas (1976). To reach the proposed goal, we support the research with the theoretical assumptions of Literary Critics and Compared Literature. This work is, therefore, a bibliographical research. With eigth short stories selected from the cited books, we understand that, in Fonseca's narration, there is a criticism