2025-08-062025-08-062024-11-26https://repositorio.ifal.edu.br/handle/123456789/1112This article emerges from the authors' concerns regarding the themes of gender and sexuality in the work "Grande Sertão: Veredas", a renowned Brazilian modernist novel by João Guimarães Rosa, and how Brazilian literary criticism has silenced discussions about these themes and at times tried to tame their potential and insert them within cisheteronormative limits, since these themes are configured as “controversial knowledge”, a “black empiricism” (Sloterdjik, 2012), a set of knowledge that goes against the values and beliefs of a given society. Through a linguistic-interpretative analysis (Cavalcanti, 2016) of the work, in the light of Queer/Cu-ir Applied Linguistics (Moita Lopes, 2022), we intend to investigate how the performances and performativities of gender and sexuality emerge in the relationship between the characters of Riobaldo and Diadorim.ptLetras - PortuguêsGrande sertão: veredasGêneroSexualidadePerformatividadesGéneroSexualidadPerformativitiesGenderSexualityTrabalho de Conclusão de CursoLINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS