Homosexuality, testimony and prison: think the self, think the other

Abstract

The paper approaches the homosexual relationship with its jail, starting by the way in which the heteronormativity stood before this incarcerated homosexual. Based on two canonical books of the testimony literature of the survivors of World War Two, which focus on the political prisoner and the prisoner for religious reasons, If this is a man, from the Italian Primo Levi, and The human race, by the French Robert Antelme, it analyzes the position of these authors against the homosexuality observed by them from the outside, in the concentration-extermination camp. On the other hand, comes out the testimonies Before night falls, by the Cuban and homosexual writer Reinaldo Arenas, and by the French homosexual Pierre Seel, I, Pierre Seel, deported homosexual, both sent to prison and concentration-extermination camp. The speech aims to analyze the different approaches of the other and of the self.