THE CITY AS A TEXT: FRAGMENTS OF MALE HOMOSEXUALITY EXPERIENCE IN CONTEMPORARY RIO JANEIRO / A CIDADE COMO UM TEXTO: FRAGMENTOS DA EXPERIÊNCIA HOMOSSEXUAL MASCULINA NO RIO DE JANEIRO CONTEMPORÂNEO / LA VILLE COMME UN TEXTE: FRAGMENTS DE L EXPÉRINCE HOMOSEXUELLE MASCULINE A RIO DE JANEIRO CONTEMPORAIN

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This study is a reflection about the contemporaneous male homosexual experience, based on a study of nineteen images of sociability of men that maintain sexual relationship with other men. The images were selected by the researcher which viewed the city as a text. The sources consulted are mostly texts of Walter Benjamim about the European modernity between XIX and XX centuries. Others sources are mainly the original works of Michel Foucault about the emergency of the modern science of sexuality. This study establishes a dialog with the text of the contemporaneous city which was written on the basis of the incursions of the researcher on social places where men have relationship with men. This study have two different focus: one of them is the portrait of the frenetic temporality of the contemporaneous Rio de Janeiro represented not only by the spaces considered as central but also as the peripherals. The other vertent is centered on the subject of the present text. The central objective of this study is to gather some of the signs emitted by male homosexual experience in Rio de Janeiro, using a methodology that do not neutralizes the researcher as subject of his own time but at the same time do not keep him in a function of a solipsist elaborater. In this sense the study has the ambition to incorporate the Benjaminian historical science, which search to present the history maintaining objects which degraded themselves in the tissue of the theoretical construction. The intention is also to consider that the perception about male homosexual experience can be transformed from the banal act of seeing in a way theoretically founded. From the images built on the basis of men´s relationship at the city. The study also problematizes the written way and the experience, essential notions to construct a sensible perception about the history of sexual practices between men, mainly that one which is devellop on the present time apprehended in the intertisce of the city, marked by economical hierarchies, contrasting values and also by the criminalization of public espaces. The study intent to reconsider the political and collective character of the homosexual experience in a contraposition of the theoretical models simply extensives - from the historical point of view - which are taken appropriation of the sexual practices between men.

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ecriture cidade homosexual experience histoire experience homosexuelle city experience ville history historia experiencia experience escrita writing experiencia homossexual

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