Abstract

The homosexual individual emerges intensely in Hispanic American fiction novel towards the end of the 19th century, in a context dominated by disciplinary devices. The main characters of Bom-Crioulo: The Black Man and the Cabin Boy (1895) by Adolfo Caminha, The 41: A Socio-Critical Novel (1906) by Eduardo Castrejón, Pasión y muerte del Cura Deusto (1924) by Augusto D'Halmar, El ángel de Sodoma (1927) by Alfonso Hernández-Catá, and Hombres sin mujer (1938) by Carlos Montenegro bear in their bodies the brands of a transgression intolerable for the hegemonic powers that try to rule alterities. The texts we analyse allow us to see how the medical, legal, religious, and state disciplinary devices become agencies of surveillance, channeling, and punishment of the positions of desire that affect the empire of heteronormativity.