Desmanchando preconceitos: a AIDS e a estética da mancha nas peças Angels in America, o Homem e a mancha e a Mancha roxa

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Cláudio Luís Serra
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6124
• topic: Aesthetics; Stain; Aids and homosexuality; Estética; Mancha; AIDS; Homossexualidade; AIDS (Doença) na literatura; AIDS (Doença) na arte; Homossexualismo na literatura; Kushner, Tony. Angels in America; Marcos, Plínio, 1935-1999. A Mancha roxa; Abreu, Caio Fernando, 1948-1996. O Homem e a mancha; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURA COMPARADA

The appearance of AIDS in the first half of the 1980s brings back to surface the discussion of the illness and guilt binarism. According to the imaginary of that age, the stain stamped on the seropositive body loses its pathological caracter as a virulent action caused by the HIV, replaced by another stain, covering not only the skin of the infected but, principally, the accusing eyes of those who see reality stained by prejudice. In order to treat this imaginary glaucoma, I will analyze the metaphor of the stain in the three plays that make part of my research: Angels in America (1990) by Tony Kushner, The man and the skin lesion (1997) by Caio Fernando Abreu and The Purple stain (1988) by Plinio Marcos. It aims at showing how the stain becomes an appropriate object/sign used by the three playwrights in the representation of the seropositive; and to reflect on stage the blurring of reality, through its imprecise meaning without a delimited frontier. In The Man and the skin lesion, for example, one of the characters, in order to free himself from the vision of a stain stamped on his body, develops a sort of esquizofrenic behavior: he creates a sorrounded fictitious world, provoking his isolation from reality, so that he can inhabit on his solitude island. In Angels in America, Prior Walter´s skin lesion body causes much more fear to his partner Louis than to the protagonist himself. While Louis tries to escape from the emblematic imagery of guilt, Prior transforms himself not into someone marked to die, but as a chosen one, a new elect , who challenges the Angel asking for more life . And finally The Purple stain presents the metaphor of the stain in a more realistic and fatalistic way: female prisoners are not only physically imprisoned, but mentally, without the possibilities of imaginary escapisms