Homoerotismo em Me chame pelo seu nome de André Aciman

Abstract

It is an undeniable fact that the number of homoerotic novels has been growing in the last decades according to many reasons that include, for instance, the Sexual Revolution started around the ́70s, as well as the despathologization of same-sex and/or gender physical and affective attraction. Besides that, other important aspects were the movements to highlight the so-called “The Sexual Revolution”, as part of Gender Studies, led mainly by the LGBTQIA+ community and, consequently, the fleetingness, yet resistant, of society reprisal towards the so-considered deviant manifestation of sexualities. Therefore, we aim to analyze Call me by your name (2007), by André Aciman, that narrates the desire and attraction between its narrator-character Elio, a seventeen year-old Italian young boy, and Oliver, a twenty-four year-old American student. For this purpose, we consider as theoretical support of authors as Bataille (2020), Costa (1992), Barcellos (2006), Foucault (2020) and Richardson e Robinson (2020), in order to understand how the concept of homoerotism can be interpreted on this novel considering desire, continuity, internal urges and, specially, will demonstrate how death displays a key role on erotic movements.