Writing of the History and sexuality

Cassandra Rios, absence and invisibility

Abstract

Rethinking the writing of the History is a task that has been occupying a considerable place in the production of historians, especially, throughout the 20th century. Considering other subjects, objects and views, the historiographical field opens up to new problems. This text intends to present possibilities of writing of History in the interface with sexuality based on the literary production of Cassandra Rios (1932 – 2002), a writer known as the “most forbidden in Brazil”, it was concluded by the thirty books vetoed by censorship, also, in the military dictatorship. From some questions raised by the field of the History of Women, a possibility of writing of History from the perspective of lesbian women is presented, considering the theme approached by Rios in the most part of her writing, focused on stories of desire among women. In the end, perspectives are pointed out in Cassandra Rios to make visible these such subjects, generally absent in the historiography, and the potential of her literary production as a relevant source in the (re)writing of subjects’ history with dissident sexualities.