ABSTRACT
The dictatorship was anchored in a masculinist and phallic reading of the world: smashing, entering, penetrating were constant images in the language of Golbery do Couto e Silva and other ideologues of the regime, especially when referencing the Amazon. In fact, given the youth and the recency of the author's militancy at the time of the events, Fernando Gabeira's role in the resistance to the dictatorship was fairly marginal. With short stories like "Alguma coisa urgentemente" and "Cenas imprecisas", Joao Gilberto Noll initiated an autopsy of hegemonic masculinity, an act made even more incisive by its confronting the legacy of the decomposition of this masculinity left by the military dictatorship. Gabeira, Caio Fernando Abreu and Noll present elaborate responses to this ruin: the work of each of them produces an erasure, a blurring of the border between hetero- and homoaffectivity and/or sexuality.
