IDENTIDADE DE GÊNERO E REPRESENTAÇÕES DE MINORIAS NO ROMANCE DO FUNDO DO POÇO SE VÊ A LUA, DE JOCA REINERS TERRON

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This work seeks to reflect on how the construction of the gender identity of the transsexual narrative character Wilson is constructed from the analysis of childhood and adolescence memories of the narrator presented in the novel Do fundo * Mestra em Letras área de concentração em Literatura Comparada, pela Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões URI/FW (2019). Contato: marilisezibetti@hotmail.com. ** Doutorado em Letras (2011) pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, na área de Literatura Brasileira. Realizou estágio de Pós-doutorado sobre literatura angolana lusófona (2013) na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Atualmente é professora dos Programas de Pós-graduação Stricto Sensu em Letras e em Educação da Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões URI, câmpus de Frederico Westphalen. Contato: anapaula@uri.edu.br. __________________________Marilise Zibetti & Ana Paula Teixeira Porto_________________________ LING. – Est. e Pesq., Catalão-GO, vol. 23, n. 2, p. 79-94, jul./dez. 2019 80 do Poço (The Moon) by Joca Reiners Terron, which was published in 2010. The book covers issues of memory, forgetfulness, death, violence and the search for gender identity, as well as pointing to childhood as a mythological space in the final years of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Considering this context, the focus of the research is still to discuss conflicts of subjects living on the margins of society, such as Wilson, who, to get rid of the shadow of the twin brother, violent William, and male identity, metamorphoses into Cleopatra. To reach these objects, the bibliographical study is based on theoretical assumptions about representations of minorities and genres in literature, with contributions from theorists such as David Foster and Guacira Louro.