Identity fictions: Conceptual readings for a critical analysis of the homosexual subject

Abstract

The notion of identity has had multiple, contradictory uses and is, perhaps, the most debated concept in academic circuits. However, the concept has faced a revitalization by cultural and feminist studies that, since a few decades, have questioned the material and subjective constitutions of sexualized-generated subjects under a dimension of false identity totality. Thus, this essay considers some post-structural discussions about "identity" specifically in the formation of homosexual subjects.