For an epistemology of sexuality in contemporary literature

Abstract

The article proposes to discuss the outline of an epistemology of sexuality applied to studies of literature, especially the one subscribed to contemporarity, having as theoretical assumptions two of Foucault’s concepts: episteme, formulated in The Order of Things (1966), and dispositive, presented in The History of Sexuality I (1976). The study presents a conceptual vocabulary that has been used as a tool for the analysis of characters in the realm of fiction. That way, intersectionality, masculinity/virility, feminine, gender identities, performativity and compulsory heteronormativity are concepts filled with tensions, both discursive and political.