“Tudo o que fizemos foi tomar a BR-116...”: the queer road of "Todos nós adorávamos caubóis"

Abstract

This article aims to debate about the sex-gender system and the centrality of hegemonic models of affectionate relationships in the field of sexuality from Carol Bensimon's novel, Todos nós adorávamos caubóis, 2013. The writer presents in her narrative two women protagonists in a peculiar road novel, in which the characters wander like outsiders in the very land where they were born, trying to understand their identities both individually and within the conflicting relationship between the two. The study has as its theoretical guiding Regina Dalcastagnè's research on the character of the contemporary Brazilian novel as a symptom of the undemocratization of literare and Queer Theory that is established as an epistemological category to dialogue with literary studies and with the mechanisms of exclusion against the various manifestations of sexuality. Therefore, texts by Adrienne Rich (2010), Teresa de Lauretis (1994) and Judith Butler (2000; 2016 support the understanding of the effects of the various social technologies that control gender behavior and heterogeneity as the regulation of desire within society and the literary text.