Prostituição e erotismo na cidade escrita de João Antonio

Abstract

In four tales of the writer from Sao Paulo João Antônio: Ô, Copacabana! (1975), Marianha Tiro-a-Esmo (1976), Maria de Jesus de Souza (1986) and Amsterdam, ai! (1986) we have prostitutes as leading caracters or leading roles inside the stories. In other publications from the author, we also can see prostituiton as part of the written city which include others marginalized personalities whose lives are made into great suburbs from big cities, specially Rio and São Paulo. In this job it is intended to observ how prostituition is structured as image inside and from the written city of João Antônio and still how this construction is made by intermediate of erotism around female figure. The study is based in bibliographic research that uses Bataille (2008) and its extensive historical research around erotism, Candido (1976) and their analysis over literature and society, Richards (1993), who traced a synchronic profile of prostituition on human history and Showalter (1993), who discusses the role of sexuality in rebuilt of images around feminine and woman while political being.