The discourses on homosexuality in Brazilian colonial period - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i2.19477
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https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i2.19477Keywords:
court of the inquisition, sodomy, male homosexuality, sexual hierarchyAbstract
This article aims to draw an analysis, based on an archaeogenealogical perspective, of the male homosexuality in the Colonial Period of Brazil and the relations with the Metropolitan Christin moral code, according to the hypothesus of a hierarchy which is based on the separation between masculinity and feminization in trade and affective the so-called ‘sexual abominable sin’. Party, initially, the file greco-latin, questioning him in his manhood scanson between an activity and a negative passivity. Thereafter, analyzes the discourse on male homosexuality in Brazil, choosing a corpus of documents and discourses of the Visitations and processes of the Court of the Inquisition in Brazil, noting the stay in the same hierarchy activity and passivity, often with discourses economic, ethnic, cultural and age.
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