Os Estigmas Da Benfazeja: Mediando Um Diálogo Entre Guimarães E Goffman

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to approach the concept of stigma in a dialogue with the lecture of Guimarães Rosa's story A Benfazeja. To achieve this objective, we conducted a review of the concept of stigma and the classification of stigmas proposed by Erving Goffman, and based on these data, we analyzed the characters of A Benfazeja and the way the story shows how bodies and identities of the characters are socially constructed. Incidentally we made some considerations about the position of the narrator in relation to the characters and the narratee and about some misunderstandings related to the theories of Erving Goffman and the socalled Chicago School.