What can a body do? An approach about the HIV-AIDS diveci in publications by Caio Fernando Abreu

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the presence of the HIV/AIDS device in Caio Fernando Abreu's publications, sharing a
brief account of the research being developed during his master's degree and the considerations identified. We believe that analyzing the presence of the HIV device in two different publications by Caio can help map certain regulations—social and political—related to the governance of these bodies in the Brazilian context. To this end, the corpus of analysis consists of the publications: Os dragões não conhecimento o paraíso (Dragons Don't Know Paradise), published in 1988, and Cartas para além dos muros (Cartes Beyond the Walls), published by the same author in a column in the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo in 1994. It is believed that the way in which the HIV insurgency was chosen to be named and discursively circulated in the 1980s is directly related to Caio Fernando Abreu's choice, and need, to publish texts on the subject, implicitly and explicitly, omitting pejorative terms as much as possible and seeking to construct a new way of speaking about AIDS and the self.